DNA on flashlight left at crime scene reveals suspect

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SANTA FE A flashlight believed to have been dropped by masked men who robbed a Santa Fe resident in an armed home invasion two years ago may help solve the crime.

Santa Fe police detectives obtained DNA from the flashlight left behind when the two masked intruders robbed a resident on Urioste Street just after 3 a.m. on Jan. 22, 2013, states an affidavit for a search warrant.

According to the documents, the flashlight was analyzed for touch DNA by the state Department of Public Safety Forensic Laboratory, which matched the DNA to Haud Buck Hayward, 45, listed as an Ojo Sarco resident in online Santa Fe County jail records.

Because the match is only an investigative lead, a search warrant was used to obtain a fresh DNA sample from Hayward, who was in the county jail for traffic counts and a charge of fleeing an officer when an oral swab sample was obtained from him late last month.

In the 2013 case, a man who lives on Urioste Street called police to say someone had knocked on his door and people outside announced that they were police officers.

He opened the door and then two men wearing masks and armed with handguns came in and tied his hands behind his head with a belt, the affidavit states.

One of the robbers took $1,200 from a bedside drawer.

Just before the gunmen gained entry to the home, a nephew who lived behind the robbery victim reported that someone had knocked on his door, too, but the nephew was able to lock the door, preventing entry.

The nephew later found his uncle tied up.

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DNA on flashlight left at crime scene reveals suspect