Mom doesn’t live here anymore, intoxicated man finds out after home invasion

She awoke Saturday in the middle of the night to see an intoxicated stranger standing in her bedroom.

The man had entered the South Hill home through a window, flipped on a bathroom light and was walking around like he owned the place, according to an account posted on Facebook by the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department. When she confronted the 31-year-old, he told her the house belonged to his mom. He then walked out the front door and fled on foot.

The woman, whose child was sleeping in the house, called 911. When deputies arrived to the house on 117th Avenue Court East shortly before 2 a.m., they found the suspect doing something uncharacteristic of burglars fleeing the scene of their crime. He’d returned and was knocking on the front door.

He responded slowly and appeared to stumble when deputies ordered him off the porch, according to the department’s report posted on Facebook. Deputies ordered the man to the ground and cuffed him while he squirmed and, slurring his words, tried to explain he was just “trying to get into my house.”

Deputies placed him in a patrol car and contacted the victim.

When they checked his license, they realized the address matched that of the house he’d just entered.

They contacted the man’s mother. She informed them that she moved two months earlier and did not think she’d told her son.

The suspect was arrested for criminal trespass in the 1st degree.

This story was originally published January 31, 2018 at 10:27 AM with the headline "Mom doesn’t live here anymore, intoxicated man finds out after home invasion."