The following is via Newsday:

Investigators have uncovered DNA evidence linking slain Brooklyn businessman Menachem Stark to a van that police seized earlier this month in the investigation of his abduction, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the case.

The light-colored van was grabbed by police about two weeks ago after they spotted it on a street in Brooklyn, officials said at the time. A person who was about to enter the vehicle when police approached willingly surrendered it to investigators and was not arrested. Police found the new evidence after examining the vehicle’s interior, said the source, who didn’t want to be named.

The new evidence appears to be a significant development for police, who have been using a variety of forensic and technological advances to try and piece together what happened to Stark, 39, after he was accosted and forced into a van outside his Williamsburg office late on the evening of Jan. 2. Stark’s partially burned body was found the next day by police in a trash bin at a Getty station on Cutter Mill Road in Great Neck.

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