A 38-year-old Canton man has been charged in connection with a 2016 home invasion and stabbing in Jackson Township after investigators said a DNA match linked him to the crime nearly a decade later.
The Jackson Township Police Department announced Thursday that Angus Webendorfer was arrested and charged with attempted murder, aggravated burglary and felonious assault in connection with the Aug. 4, 2016, attack in the 5900 block of Kentview Avenue NW.
Police said an unknown man entered a woman’s home through an unlocked door while she was sleeping. The victim woke to find a man stabbing her with a knife. She was stabbed multiple times, according to investigators. The suspect then stole some of the victim’s belongings and fled the home.
Some stolen items were later recovered in the street and collected by police. Investigators said evidence recovered from the scene was sent to the Ohio crime lab, where a DNA profile was developed and entered into a national database.
According to police, a break in the case came in February when the Ohio State Highway Patrol arrested Webendorfer on unrelated felony charges during a traffic stop. Because of the felony arrest, his DNA was collected and entered into the national database, police said.
In May, Jackson Township detectives were notified of a DNA match between the evidence collected in the 2016 case and the sample collected by the highway patrol, according to the department.
Arrest warrants were issued, and Webendorfer was taken into custody May 21. He was booked into the Stark County Jail.
Police listed Webendorfer’s address as the 1100 block of Bellflower Avenue in Canton.
Jackson Township Police Chief Mark Brink thanked the department’s detective bureau, the Ohio State Highway Patrol and the U.S. Marshals Service Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force for their assistance in the investigation.
