WESTFIELD – A city teen was arrested Saturday morning when a resident found him sleeping in her daughter’s bed.
City police report that a caller reported the incident at 10:37 a.m. and officer Kerry Paton arrived at the Hanover Street address of the caller four minutes later. Officer John Parrish soon joined him.
Paton reports that the resident told him that the suspect was waiting in the kitchen with her landlord.
She said that she had noticed items on her porch had been disturbed but, before she investigated, she took her three-year-old daughter to a neighbor.
The woman told Paton that she then examined her home and when she entered her ten-year-old daughter’s bedroom she found a man asleep under the covers of her daughter’s bed.
The girl was not at home.
The woman said that when she saw the man she screamed and ran outside where she called to her landlord who was within earshot.
Her landlord, a retired city police officer, told Paton that when he entered the residence he saw the youth attempting to flee via the front door but he advised him to sit down in the kitchen and await police.
Paton reports that the woman said that after the situation stabilized, she realized that the man she had found was a neighbor’s brother. She said that he had apparently entered via an open window facing the porch.
Paton reports the intruder was identified as Isac Robert Hernandez, 19, of 10 Hanover St. and a routine check revealed him to be the subject of an outstanding warrant.
Hernandez was arrested on the warrant and for breaking and entering with intent to commit a misdemeanor.
Hernandez had not been released on bail Saturday evening and is expected to be arraigned in Westfield District Court today.
