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By Mark Price
The Charlotte Observer

A Florida burglary suspect has been dubbed the “pooping perpetrator” after detectives made a disgusting find at the crime scene.

The suspect dropped a DNA sample in the worst possible way, according to the Fort Myers Police Department.

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“Saturday, January 21st at approximately 2:30 am, (a) male broke into Joe’s Crab Shack, located at 2024 W. First Street,” police reported in a news release.

“The male climbed through a small window. He broke and stole multiple items to include alcohol, then defecated on the floor prior to leaving.”

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Knowingly or not, he did this in view of security cameras, and was not wearing a mask.

That means police have multiple surveillance videos, showing things most people don’t want to see.

Two edited videos were shared Jan. 22 on Facebook, one of him easing through a window and another showing the suspect casually walking behind the counter.

“The whole world gets to see him take a (potty break),” David Griffith noted on the police department’s Facebook page.

“I love the sign adjacent to his crime: ‘Thank You. Come Again.’ Hope you find this bozo before he sh.., uh, strikes again,” Ellen Perry wrote.

“I don’t know who I feel sorry for: the owner who had things stolen or the poor officers who were lucky enough to find what he did on floor. Maybe I’m getting too old I keep thinking nothing surprises me anymore,” Barbara Raschella said.

Fort Myers is about 125 miles south of Tampa.

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