Blotter: Man awakes to burglar in living room

Dec. 27—ELKHART — A downtown resident told police he woke up Sunday morning to find an intruder in his upper-floor living room, locating the person a few minutes later lying on the ground in a nearby alley.

Police were called to a burglary in progress at 5:55 a.m. in the 100 block of South Main Street, the Elkhart Police Department said. While en route, the officer hear radio traffic indicating other officers had located a suspect in the 200 block of South Main.

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