Bloody nose leads to boxer's arrest

FBI agent retrieves swab after fight, links DNA to bank robbery

In a life with few victories, Martin Tucker had a big one in April.

The struggling boxer won a unanimous decision during a four-round fight in Toledo. He was cheered by a hundred friends and relatives. Sitting ringside were Buster Douglas and Tommy "The Hitman" Hearns.

But someone else was in the audience — an FBI agent, according to court records.

Afterward, Special Agent Robert Schmitz retrieved a Q-Tip swab that had been used for a bloody nose sustained by Tucker.

Believing the light-welterweight had been involved in the robbery of a Monroe credit union in 2009, Schmitz brought the swab to an FBI lab that matched its DNA to genetic material from a black mask worn by one of the robbers, according to a criminal complaint.


By Francis X. Donnelly
From The Detroit News:

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