Quick DNA analysis lands Mission Viejo robbery suspect in jail

Travis Allard was long gone, authorities say, by the time Orange County sheriff’s investigators found the blood-stained cash register he was suspected of stealing from Pink Ribbon Donuts in Mission Viejo.
But he was identified just a day later, they said, under the Rapid DNA program.
Allard, 30, had entered the shop March 21, ordered two donuts, brandished a knife and demanded cash, a Sheriff’s Department news release said. He fled with the money, which vanished, and the register, wh