BURGLARS PICKED THE WRONG HOUSE : TEEN INSIDE CALLS 911; 2 SUSPECTS ARRESTED.

Byline: Sherry Joe Crosby Daily News Staff Writer

Sheriff's deputies arrested two men on suspicion of burglary Friday after a 15-year-old Saugus boy, home sick from school, called 911 and alerted authorities.

The teen was asleep alone in the house when he heard knocking shortly before noon at the front door of his home on Haskell Canyon Road near Falling Star Lane, sheriff's Deputy Cortland Myers said.

``He saw individuals at the door he didn't recognize,'' Myers said. ``He went back to sleep. Five to 10 minutes later he heard metal scraping at the back sliding glass door and heard glass shattering.''

Running to a bathroom to hide, the teen called 911 and described to officials the sounds he heard. The burglars had used a screwdriver and crowbar to knock glass from a door.

Within minutes of the 11:50 a.m. call, Myers arrived at the house, where he spotted two men running into the dry Bouquet Creek, he said. After a brief foot chase, Myers and other deputies cornered the suspects in a back yard off Caraway Lane.

``They were crouching behind the fence in the back yard,'' Myers said of the suspects who were not armed.

The two men, identified as Bryan Caruana, 22, of Saugus and Michael Carter, 21, of Sun Valley were booked on suspicion of burglary and were being held at the Santa Clarita Valley sheriff's station in Newhall. The two are scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Newhall Municipal Court.

The deputy said the teen-ager's quick thinking helped authorities arrest the pair.

He should be commended for ``calling the Sheriff's Department immediately as soon as he heard scraping and shattering sounds and not confronting those two,'' Myers said.