DNA links man to 3-year-old burglary

A man who broke into a Bayville grocery store three years ago was arrested Monday and charged in the burglary when investigators matched his DNA to blood left behind when he cut himself on a broken store window, the police said.

Kim Goyenechea, 24, of 12 Valentine Ave. in Glen Cove, broke a pane of glass at the IGA Food Basket Supermarket and entered the Bayville Avenue store shortly before 3 a.m. on Oct. 8, 2003 and escaped with "undisclosed proceeds," the police said.

Nassau police took a DNA sample from the blood left at the store, and sent it for analysis to the state police forensic investigation center. The state Division of Criminal Justice Services then matched the DNA from the blood to that of Goyenechea, who was in jail for an unrelated crime, the police said.

Based on the DNA match, Second Precinct Officers Joseph Rubino and John Nicosia arrested Goyenechea at 11:40 a.m. Monday at 101 County Seat Drive in Mineola. He was charged with burglary and will be arraigned today in First District Court in Hempstead, the Nassau police said.