Master Yoda, strong with the (Police) Force he is

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We all know the amazing skills and powers of Master Yoda, but were you aware that he was also able to take fingerprints? In a move worthy of Luke Skywalker, while communing with the Force on Dagobah, Yoda was able to cross time and space to nab the fingerprints of a hapless burglar in Huntingdon.

Matthew Douglas broke into flats and a car in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, and stole electrical items, a briefcase and the Star Wars tin.

But the 28-year-old dropped the latter as he fled one of the properties, leaving a fingerprint which led to his capture.

Douglas, 28, admitted two counts of burglary and one of theft.

He was jailed at Peterborough Crown Court for three years and two months.

Police were able to identify him from the fingerprint he left on the Yoda tin.

SourceBBC News
Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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We all know the amazing skills and powers of Master Yoda, but were you aware that he was also able to take fingerprints? In a move worthy of Luke Skywalker, while communing with the Force on Dagobah, Yoda was able to cross time and space to nab the fingerprints of a hapless burglar in Huntingdon.

Matthew Douglas broke into flats and a car in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, and stole electrical items, a briefcase and the Star Wars tin.

But the 28-year-old dropped the latter as he fled one of the properties, leaving a fingerprint which led to his capture.

Douglas, 28, admitted two counts of burglary and one of theft.

He was jailed at Peterborough Crown Court for three years and two months.

Police were able to identify him from the fingerprint he left on the Yoda tin.

SourceBBC News
Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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