When a 20-year-old home burglar tried to break in to a home in the 900 block of Whispering Pine, the 12-year-old girl home alone was close enough to see green latex gloves on his hands as he reached through broken glass in the front door.
According to police, the 12-year-old was in the home alone around 10:25 a.m. Tuesday when she heard someone open the storm window then throw a brick through the glass in the front door. The girl hit the panic button on the home’s alarm system, and the thief ran off.
When police arrived, they found two witnesses – one who saw a man enter the back yard of the residence, and one who saw him leave. Both provided the same description. About a block away, police saw a man matching the description riding a pink Huffy youth bicycle, and they stopped him.
According to police, 20-year-old Lawrence Leonard had several difference stories about where he was going and where he had been. Police patted him down and found a screwdriver and green latex gloves, which matched with what the girl saw when the suspect’s hand came through the front door.
Leonard, who recently came to Missouri City from Houston to stay with his aunt, was taken back to the home, where both witnesses identified him as the man they saw. He was arrested for burglary of a habitation, a third degree felony.
What a dope…