Authorities said DNA recovered from the sunglasses linked an illegal immigrant from Honduras to a third residential burglary in Florida.
Authorities said detectives with the Martin County Sheriff’s Office linked Oscar Amaya Guevara, 41, to the scene of an unsolved crime using DNA from the sunglasses, leading them to link him to the theft.
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Illegal immigrant Oscar Amaya Guevara, 41, is suspected of being linked to a third residential burglary in Florida through DNA found on sunglasses. (Martin County Sheriff’s Office)
Authorities say the theft committed by Amaya Guevara occurred in late 2023 and was followed by two more thefts in the same area. Amaya Guevara, who was already incarcerated in the Martin County Jail, was charged with one of those thefts and then became the main suspect in two other unsolved cases shortly thereafter, according to the sheriff’s office.
Authorities said in January a suspect entered a home where a teenage girl lived and violently threw her to the ground. The girl confronted him and live-streamed a video of Amaya Guevara to her father.
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Authorities said the sunglasses linked suspect Oscar Amaya Guevara, 41, to the third residential burglary. (Martin County Sheriff’s Office)
He was arrested shortly thereafter, and after his DNA was taken, the sample matched a pair of sunglasses found in the opened case.
Oscar Amaya Guevara entered the United States illegally from Honduras and is the subject of a detention request by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement, which requires local authorities to notify federal immigration officials when illegal immigrants are scheduled to be released from custody.
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Agents often take the individual to federal custody to begin deportation proceedings.
“This case highlights the complexities of tracking not only criminals leaving our region, but also those in the country illegally, who are much more difficult to locate,” the sheriff’s office said.
