DNA left at Fayette church leads to arrest

A DNA sample from a Fayette County man already jailed on other charges led police to issue warrants alleging his involvement in a year-old church burglary.

Robert M. Oros Jr., 28, of Yauger Hollow Road, Lemont Furnace, will be charged with burglarizing St. Cecilia Catholic Church and the Lemont Sportsmen's Club, both in North Union Township, on Nov. 9, 2005.

He is accused of breaking a window in the sportsmen's club, entering and setting off an alarm system. He fled to the nearby St. Cecilia, smashed a window to enter, then damaged the alarm panel, state police at Uniontown said.

Blood samples were recovered from both scenes.

Oros is an inmate at SCI-Pine Grove, Indiana County, where he is serving a sentence for retail theft, prison spokesman Douglas Russell said Tuesday.

Trooper James Pierce of the Uniontown barracks said Oros was required to give a DNA sample as part of his sentencing.

During a recent check of blood samples in the state system, the state police crime lab at Greensburg got a hit on Oros, matching his DNA with the crime scene blood samples.

Pierce said he will charge Oros with two counts of burglary and two counts of criminal mischief in a video arraignment before District Judge Wendy Dennis.