Briefs: DNA Tied to Suspected Purse Snatcher

DNA evidence has reportedly linked a 20-year-old man to an attempted robbery in the fall near 14th and Pearl streets, police said.

Investigators received a hit in early January off a DNA swab from a purse a man tried to snatch Oct. 24 from a woman walking in the 2300 block of 14th.

The woman told police that she heard someone run up from behind her, then felt someone grab her purse and attempt to pull it from her. She was thrown to the ground, but she held on to the purse.

A police spokesman said a search for Los Angeles resident Conner William Tyne began after the L.A. County Sheriff's Crime Lab matched his DNA to the swab lifted from the purse.

Tyne was arrested Feb. 6 on suspicion of attempted robbery.

CRIME BRIEFS

Knife Brandishing: A man looking "crazed" reportedly frightened a woman mid-morning Feb. 9 as she walked on Bryn Mawr and noticed he was clutching an 8-10 inch knife. The woman called police who rolled out to investigate and said they found the man behind a home in the 1700 block. Officers tased him after he allegedly refused to raise his hands and instead reached for his waistband. He was taken into custody and officers say they recovered the alleged knife.

The man, identified as Santa Monica resident Kurt Rolando Reynaga, 47, was booked on suspicion of exhibiting a deadly weapon and obstructing and resisiting police officers.

Drunk in Public: Alleged crack cocaine and a glass pipe were found on a 51-year-old man arrested on suspicion of public intoxication, police said. Officers spotted the man, identified as James Edward Black II "staggering from side to side, almost falling into traffic" along Lincoln Boulevard at 2:20 a.m. Feb. 9 in the 2900 block of Lincoln Boulevard.  Black was arrested on suspicion of possession of controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and public intoxication.