From staff reports
A former Oil City man currently incarcerated at the SCI Fayette state prison has been charged with breaking into a house in Oil City in 2015.
Oil City police said in a criminal complaint that Brennen Blauser, 24, is facing charges after his DNA was found to match the DNA in blood found six years ago on a broken window at the East Seventh Street home.
Police responded May 4, 2015, to the burglary after being flagged down by the property owner while on patrol, the complaint said.
Pieces of glass with blood on them were submitted to a lab and a DNA profile was constructed, the complaint said.
In March 2020, Oil City police received a report that a potential DNA match to the blood on the glass had been found, the complaint said. After obtaining a search warrant, Oil City police traveled to SCI Fayette in La Belle and gathered a DNA sample from Blauser in November, according to the complaint.
Blauser was charged with felony counts of burglary-overnight accommodations, no person present and criminal trespass, a misdemeanor count of theft by unlawful taking-movable property, and a summary count of criminal mischief-damage property.
He was placed in the Venango County jail, and his preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 12 in Central Court.
