2010-02-17 / News

Talking burglary suspect arrested in home

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A burglary suspect who stopped to chat with people inside homes has been charged, along with an accomplice, with four felonies.

Twenty-year-old Brenton Kehoe and 18-year-old Gilberto Gutierrez are charged with burglary and theft.

Police say homeowner Judy Powell awoke last week to find someone opening cabinet doors. Then a figure moved into her bedroom.

She spoke to the intruder, and after a few minutes, her husband, a doctor and retired Air Force colonel, tossed him out of the house.

Police were still investigating a half hour later when a second call of a burglary in progress came in. That intruder walked into a bedroom and spoke to Shawn Knudeson.

Kehoe was arrested in the bedroom of Knudeson’s son. Gutierrez was arrested in the driveway.

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