Homeowners Interrupt Three Shoreline Burglaries

Shoreline Police arrested a man suspected in three home burglaries, all of which were interrupted by homeowners.

The string of incidents happened Friday, July 19, according to the Shoreline Police Department’s post on Facebook.

A homeowner called police just after 1:30 p.m. to report he’d interrupted a burglar in his home in the 19800 block of Sixth Ave. N.E. When he first arrived home, he saw a gray or silver Chevrolet Lumina parked in his driveway. The driver told the homeowner he was “waiting for a friend,” then left. That’s when the homeowner heard someone inside the house and breaking glass, police said.

The homeowner went to his back yard, where he confronted the suspect leaving the home, but the suspect ran off.

The police account continued:

“At the same time, officers were also responding to yet another burglary in the same neighborhood that had just occurred. The homeowner found the suspect inside her house. The suspect took off but then came around to the driveway and asked the homeowner for help. The homeowner said she could not help him, at which point he took off and the homeowner called 911.”

The suspect, an Everett man, apparently struck again in the 700 block of N.E. 205th St., where a man doing yard work went into the house to speak to the homeowner and spotted the suspect in the bathroom.

“The suspect was helping himself to a glass of water from the victim’s bathroom,” police said. “The homeowner advised the suspect that he had called 911 and to leave, which he did.”