Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using DNA to solve a crime is not a new concept — but using tree DNA certainly is. The United States Department of Agriculture's ...

TACOMA, Wash. (KOMO) - This week, a western Washington man was sentenced to 20 months in prison after tree DNA evidence tied him to stolen maple "music wood" trees. The U.S. Attorney's Office Western ...

WILLOW SPRINGS, Mo. (KY3) — Investigators turned to the DNA from a tree to solve a theft of black walnut trees in the Mark Twain National Forest. In October 2019, law enforcement began investigating ...

For the first time ever, investigators have used tree DNA as evidence in court—to help convict a wood poacher. In July 2021, Justin Andrew Wilke was convicted of conspiracy, theft of public property, ...

Here’s how a 1-in-an-undecillion genetic match sent him to prison.