Man due for release arrested: DNA link to 2004 stabbing

MONROE, La. -- A pre-release DNA test linked a man who had nearly served his time on a firearms charge to a stabbing in 2004. So when Harvey Dewayne Jenkins left the Winn Correctional Center, it was only to be moved to the Ouachita Correctional Center.

Bond has been set at $850,000 for Jenkins, 28, of Monroe.

He was booked Friday with attempted first-degree murder and armed robbery of a Glenwood Regional Medical Center employee who was stabbed in the chest by a man who took her purse on March 5, 2004, authorities said.

Jenkins had been scheduled for release after serving time in Winn Parish on an unrelated charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. When an inmate is released from any jail in Louisiana, a DNA sample is taken and added to the Combines DNA Index System, or CODIS.

When Jenkins' DNA was entered into the system, it turned up a match, so jail officials contacted the West Monroe Police Department.