BURGLARY SUSPECT FALLS ASLEEP ON JOB.Byline: Staff and Wire Services A sheriff's Special Weapons and Tactics team arrested a suspected armed intruder An attacker that gains, or tries to gain, unauthorized access to a system. See attacker, intrusion and IDS. early Sunday in a Palmdale house. Carrying a World War II-era British Enfield bolt-action rifle, the man apparently kicked in the door of a house in the 5300 block of Sunburst Drive, then fell asleep on a bed with the rifle beside him, deputies said. Deputies said they were trying to locate the home's occupants, who were away. They have no explanation for the man's actions. ``That's why we're still looking into everything,'' Sgt. Kyle Bistline said Sunday morning Sunday Morning may refer to:
Deputies who answered a burglar BURGLAR. One who commits a burglary. (q. v.) alarm about 2:30 a.m. found the door kicked in and saw, in a bedroom, the man lying next to the rifle, apparently sleeping heavily, officials said. Unable to get him to respond, and unsure if anybody else was in the house, the deputies backed out and called for the SWAT team. Identified as Ernest Lopez, 43, of Lancaster the intruder was captured at 5:18 a.m., deputies said. The house's residents were not at home. Lopez was booked at the sheriff's Lancaster station on suspicion of burglary burglary, at common law, the breaking and entering of a dwelling house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony, whether the intent is carried out or not. . He was held in lieu of Instead of; in place of; in substitution of. It does not mean in addition to. $40,000 bail, deputies said. |
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