PASADENA — Police jailed a suspected burglar Thursday after someone reported seeing him breaking into a neighbor’s house, officials said.
Paul Newson, 18, of Pasadena was booked on suspicion of burglary, Pasadena police Lt. Chris Russ said.
“This arrest resulted from a neighbor watching out for their neighborhood,” the lieutenant said.
A witness called police about 9 a.m. from the 1900 block of North El Molino Avenue to report seeing a man crawling into a neighbor’s window, as well as another man standing in the driveway, Russ said.
Officers spotted Newson walking on a cinder block wall behind the house, he said, and then arrested him about a mile away in the 600 block of West Woodbury. The second burglary suspect, described only as a white man, was not found.
Inside the home, Russ said, the alleged burglars were apparently in the process of stealing two flat-screen TVs and had opened up several Christmas presents.