These must-have Insider Deal household items are at unbeatable prices!“Once the person is brought into our facility, we would start the fingerprints here,” Sara Radford, a detention deputy at Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility, said. “If they have a felony charge that we could take DNA, that’s when we would be able to choose the simplex with DNA.”From there, a mouth swab would be taken and traditionally, it would be mailed off and take months before results would return.
Once the deputy takes the DNA, it is put into a machine that searches a database. If the arrestee’s DNA is connected to a case of concern, it will come back with a notification to contact the investigating agency. The deputy in Flagler County would then reach out. “The reason this is important is that FDLE has a backlog, so if we can do rapid DNA now, it will help reduce their backlog,” Flagler County Sheriff, Rick Staly, said.
The Sheriff adds that those quick DNA matches will lessen the chance of a jail inmate being released before facing potential charges elsewhere.“It is when you talk about the ability to solve an unknown suspect committing crimes. Could be a cold case from 30-40 years ago. It might be a case five years ago. But this will help you solve that case,” Staly said.
Clay County is also one of 11 counties to be given a grant to get the machine. They went live with the technology earlier this month.