Police collected more than 9,000 samples from those arrested for felonies January through March. They got 72 hits from those samples, including an unsolved rape from 2016.

Police in Indiana will now be able to take DNA samples from anyone brought in on a felony arrest warrant after a law passed in 2017 takes effect Jan 1.

Legislation allowing police to collect DNA samples from anyone they arrest for a felony took a step closer to becoming law.

Despite the bill's passage, there's disagreement over what happens to some of those DNA records.

If you're arrested for a felony in Indiana, should the police automatically take a DNA sample to keep on file? That's the question a panel of lawmakers considered Tuesday during a study committee hearing.