Cold DNA Hit Catches Home Invader

NEW YORK (AP) -- A Queens man is being charged with breaking into a Richmond Hill home last August and raping the 37-year-old housekeeper. The Queens District Attorney says they linked 40-year-old Antonio Ortiz to the crime when DNA taken from the crime scene matched his DNA in a national database.

DA Richard Brown says Ortiz broke into the house at 3:30 a.m. last August 24th, when the housekeeper was sleeping upstairs. She awoke and Ortiz pretended to be police officer. The DA says he pulled a knife and raped her. He then took money jewelry and other items from the house.

Brown says Ortiz's DNA was in the national database because he once was arrested for a burglary in Brooklyn.