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Oct 2022

Last Updated: 20/10/2022
Crime
Crime

Man arrested after intruder breaks into Harrogate district house

by Calvin Robinson

| 20 Oct, 2022
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The owner of a house in a village near Boroughbridge woke during the night to find an intruder in their home.

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Police arrested a driver in Kirkby Malzeard.

A man has been arrested following two burglaries in a village near Boroughbridge

North Yorkshire Police said they responded to a report of a man breaking into a house in Marton-cum-Grafton in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

The suspect broke into the house while the owner was asleep, but later fled after the occupant woke up and startled them.

The man was later arrested after officers found them in a hedgerow nearby.

Later, police received reports of garden tools being stolen from a property nearby.

A man in his 40s from Barnsley was arrested on suspicion of burglary. Enquiries are ongoing for both incidents.




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