DNA Links Man To 2003 Home Invasion, Family Attack: Police

SILVER SPRING, MD — A man accused of threatening, assaulting, and binding a family with duct tape during a home invasion in 2003 was arrested last week after DNA evidence linked him to the crime scene, authorities said.

Stacy Howard Moore, 48, of Hyattsville, was taken into custody on Thursday and charged with first-degree burglary, first-degree assault, the use of a handgun during the commission of a felony, armed robbery, and false imprisonment. He is being held without bond.

On the evening of Jan. 22, 2003, Montgomery County police said Moore and two other suspects, posing as law enforcement, confronted a 31-year-old man outside his Piney Branch Road home in Silver Spring. Two of the suspects were armed.

The trio threatened the victim and forced their way into his apartment — where police say his 28-year-old wife, 7-year-old son, and 5-year-old daughter lived.

The suspects bound them with duct tape, stabbed the 31-year-old husband, poured bleach on him, threatened to cut out his eyes, and burned his neck with a heated knife, police said. They also threatened to shoot the two children.

Later that night, the man's 22-year-old son entered the apartment. Police said the robbers assaulted him, duct-taped him, and doused him in bleach before fleeing the scene with stolen property.

Family members were able to free themselves and call 911.

Detectives found socks in the apartment they say the suspects used to cover their hands during the armed home invasion.

On March 22, 2021 — 18 years after the incident — a national DNA database maintained by the FBI notified county police that the DNA evidence on one of the socks matched Moore's DNA profile.

Investigators obtained an arrest warrant for Moore on April 2 and arrested him in Hyattsville nearly three weeks later.

Police have yet to identify the remaining two suspects. Anyone with additional information is asked to call investigators at 240-773-5100.