DNA trails found by authorities on chicken bones led to the identification and arrest of a man on burglary charges.

The chicken bones found in an apartment burglarized last November were examined by police, who surmised that the robber got hungry in the middle of his heist and helped himself to the chicken.

The suspect, 43-year old John Wyatt Weaver from Kansas City, had broken into and stolen from two residences in the Gladstone area last November 23, reported the Kansas City Star. In one of the apartments, police found six chicken bones that appeared to have been chewed up and scattered all over the area.

The chicken was said to have been leftovers taken from a previous robbery. Authorities filed the bones as evidence and examined them, eventually revealing Weaver's identity picked out from a national DNA database.

Weaver's DNA information found its way to the database by means of 16 previous felony convictions, some of them being second-degree burglary.

"The facts of this are more amusing than anything I can say," the UPI quoted Clay County Prosecutor Daniel White.

Weaver's 16 convictions, along with his 33 other felony arrests, are on other charges such as stealing, tampering, receiving stolen property, automobile theft and resisting arrest.