A cigarette butt discarded by Ahmed Sule after leaving the Anoka County Jail may be what sends him back in. Sule was accused about a year ago of breaking into his 84-year-old neighbor’s home in Fridley and sexually assaulting him.
At the time, Sule agreed to give detectives a DNA sample but a judge later ruled he didn’t understand what he was doing because of a language barrier. The judge then threw out the case.
“He would be an individual we would deem him to be a danger to the public as a whole and (we) did not want to let one setback in court compromise that,” said Cmdr. Paul Sommer, with the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office.
Detectives followed Sule out of jail until they arrested him on a separate burglary charge a few hours later. Along the way, officers collected cigarette butts he threw on the ground outside the jail and out of his car window. Officers even stopped traffic on Highway 10 to pick up some of the butts.
Sommer said results from the BCA crime lab show saliva from Sule’s cigarettes once again match evidence from the violent attack.
Sule has now been re-charged with several counts of burglary and criminal sexual conduct.
“It's come a long ways. I can remember when -- going back 15-20 years -- you basically needed a vile of blood to get a DNA sample. Now, it's much less,” said Sommer.
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