A 34-year-old Colorado prison inmate has been named a suspect in a Mesa sexual assault that took place nearly 18 years ago.

LOS ANGELES - DNA consistent with Phil Spector's genetic markers was found on Lana Clarkson's breast but was not present on the gun that killed her, on the bullets in the weapon or under her broken fingernail, a sheriff's criminalist testified Tuesday.

A DNA sample culled from a baseball cap led to a Mesa man’s arrest Tuesday in an attempted sexual assault from two years ago, Tempe police said.

October 7, 2004

Ever get caught driving aggressively? Or get in trouble for writing one too many bad checks? If so, you might be required to provide a DNA sample for a database used by law enforcement to solve crimes.

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department hasn't ruled out filing a second lawsuit challenging Arizona's immigration law if evidence shows racial profiling at work, Attorney General Eric Holder says.

The way students study DNA strands has met its match with a new genome test kit produced by a Tempe company.

Analyzing the DNA samples of youngsters who have not been found guilty of any crime is an unconstitutional warrantless search, the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled.

A 34-year-old Colorado prison inmate has been named a suspect in connection with a Mesa sexual assault that took place nearly 18 years ago.

He brazenly abducted a woman in broad daylight, haphazardly discarded two bodies on Mesa streets and at one point even took a victim into a house.

BOULDER, Colo. - Citing new DNA tests, prosecutors on Wednesday cleared JonBenet Ramsey's parents and brother in the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old beauty queen and apologized to the family for casting the cloud of suspicion that hung over them for more than a decade.

Stepping out of the drugstore in April with a handgun and a wad of stolen cash, Kyle Hammaker probably hoped he would slip into obscurity: one lowly robber among hundreds who strike in Mesa each year.

A piece of DNA-analyzing equipment used by the Scottsdale Police Department for the past two years has identified new evidence from the scenes of 11 unsolved cases that were missed by earlier

A piece of DNA-analyzing equipment used by the Scottsdale Police Department for the past two years has identified new evidence from the scenes of 11 unsolved cases that were missed by earlier

Stacked in police warehouses across the Valley, there are thousands of rape cases with DNA samples that have never been tested, an ABC15 Investigation found.

An admitted rapist on Wednesday vowed to rehabilitate himself in prison and figure out what drove him to attack three women from Scottsdale and Phoenix.

Hundreds of Scottsdale’s cold criminal cases will be revived with a DNA sequence detection system courtesy of a $224,000 federal grant, police said.

In an effort to increase efficiency and turnaround time, the Biology Unit at the Mesa crime lab, which analyzes DNA, switched to an electronic system as of January 2013.

A federal grant to process DNA will enable investigators to take a fresh look at nearly 6,000 unsolved homicide and sexual assault cases in Arizona that date back decades.

A California man was sent to prison for 15 years Friday for raping an elementary school teacher in her classroom when he was passing through Mesa in 1992.

Crime labs are rising and expanding throughout the state as police departments strive to keep pace with the evolving role of science in law enforcement.

Gilbert will begin having the Mesa police forensics lab process its crime scene evidence, which law enforcement officials expect will help them arrest more criminals who operate in the two communities.

Jaime L. Cruz had 54 days left to serve in prison on an aggravated drunken-driving conviction when a database spit out his name in connection with three unsolved rapes — one in Phoenix and two in Scottsdale.

The word rape strikes terror in the hearts of women who are most often the targets of a rapist. Rape, often called sexual assault, is one of the vilest crimes that can be committed. It’s a crime I found in my career that can be uglier than a murder and often more difficult to investigate and solve.