Breaking in feels like something in "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", at least that's how Michael Duarte tells it.
NBC 4 sports writer Duarte told his news station that he had been away from home for a few days and returned last Saturday and found someone breaking into his Echo Park home.
Duarte said he could see the kitchen ransacked through the glass door at the back of the house. At first, he thought the wildlife had entered the interior and damaged things, but a broken glass panel next to the door handle indicated a break-in.
"I thought someone broke into my home and rob me to leave," he told the station. On the news station or his Instagram account, Duarte could not be contacted by phone immediately.
When Duarte headed to the front door, he told the station that he noticed another glass panel was broken and in the distance he noticed something special.
This is not a bear, just a naked man sleeping in bed.
"I was shocked to see a man sleeping not only in my bed, but completely naked in my bed..."Like the golden color of three bears, someone sleeps in my bed instead of a bear."
Duarte told a friend and his pet to wait in the car and called police, who arrested the man. Duarte said he threatened to kill him and his friends when the man was handcuffed.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department did not immediately respond to the Times investigation into the arrest.
Shortly after the invaders were arrested, Duarte began investigating the losses in his home. He said the man seemed to have been at home for hours helping himself eat in the refrigerator.
"He had a box of ice cream sandwiches, he had Dole whip, he stuffed a whole box of microwaves beyond beef burgers, and then cooked them," Duarte said.
The man also found Duarte's chewing gum hiding hiding place.
"My had 60 fresh backpacks inside, not open," he told NBC. "He opened it, chewed all of this and spit out a bunch of … softball sizes."
He said on the back terrace that the man killed a possum with the statue and found a bag containing his suspected drug.
According to the latest crime statistics from LAPD, the weird break-in highlights the number of property break-ins in the area patrolled by the LAPD Rampart Station.
Thefts increased from March 16 to May 10, and from 23 incidents to 33, an increase of 43%. Despite the increase, property crimes are still in 114 cases compared to 217 cases last year.