BAKER, Judge.
Appellant-defendant Marteques Black appeals his conviction for Burglary,
On August 12, 2010 at about 3:25 p.m., Karen Harris returned to her Fort Wayne home where she resided with her husband and two sons to find that it had been ransacked. Harris saw immediately upon entering her home that things were in disarray. The entertainment center in the living room was broken, and its back had been ripped off; the window in the kitchen had been shattered and its blinds broken. As Harris went through her home, she discovered that every room had been rummaged through—drawers pulled out and contents thrown on the floor—and a door on the side of the house had been destroyed. Harris called the police and reported the burglary, and they came to the home to investigate.
Harris discovered that several items had been taken from the home: a DVD player, video games, an iPod, and a cell phone. In addition, all of Harris's jewelry had been taken, including a gold, herringbone chain with a broken clasp, a gold ring, and a diamond heart pendant and chain. In searching the rooms and taking inventory, the family discovered a polo shirt with blood on it in one of Harris's sons' rooms; the polo shirt did not belong to anyone in the family, and it was turned over to the police.
About four days later, the police called Harris to Mr. Wimp's Coins, a pawn shop, to look at some jewelry they believed might be hers. Harris identified her heart pendant, the herringbone necklace, and the gold ring. The individual who sold the jewelry to Mr. Wimp's Coins had given identification in the name of Marteques Black. The police obtained an order to compel a swab from Black for DNA comparison. The Indiana State Police laboratory determined that the swab matched the blood on the polo shirt discovered in Harris's home.
Black was charged with burglary as a class B felony, and was tried and convicted by a jury. The trial court sentenced Black to ten years at the Department of Correction.
Black now appeals.
As noted above, Black argues the evidence was insufficient to convict him of class B felony burglary. In reviewing sufficiency of the evidence claims, we will not reweigh the evidence or assess the credibility of witnesses.
In order to convict Black of burglary, the State was required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he broke and entered the Harris's residence with the intent to commit theft therein. Indiana Code § 35-43-2-1. Here, the State presented evidence that a polo shirt with Black's blood on it was found in the Harris's home, a place where Black had no reason or permission to enter. Tr. p. 26-28. Additionally, the jury heard evidence that Black sold jewelry, later identified by Harris as that stolen from her home, to Mr. Wimp's Coins. Tr. 80-81. We conclude that these two pieces of evidence are sufficient to allow a reasonable fact-finder to determine that Black was guilty of burglary beyond a reasonable doubt.
The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.
NAJAM, J., and CRONE, J., concur.