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Drug-stuffed teddy nabs robber
Mon Sep 30,10:03 AM ET
VIENNA (Reuters) - Traces of DNA on a cocaine-stuffed teddy bear helped bring charges against a man who got away with a bank robbery five years ago, police say.
The main post office in the Upper Austrian city of Linz intercepted a teddy bear with a 200-gram (seven ounces) belly-full of cocaine in July, and traced the recipient to a 40-year-old man.
The Austrian said he had the drug sent from Brazil "for his personal use", and was released after five weeks in custody.
But tests on the furry toy matched DNA evidence found at the scene of a botched bank robbery in 1997, when two thieves threw their booty out of the window of the getaway car after an alarm went off in the money bag.
The man admitted to the robbery on questioning, and said his then accomplice was his brother. Both were in custody on Monday.
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