Burglar Arrested After She Was Found Hiding in Victim’s Closet

A California woman returned home after a week to find her apartment burglarized—and her neighbor hiding in her closet.

Brittany Heinzman, 35, had returned to her apartment in Irvine, Calif., after spending a week away for the holidays.

When she returned Dec. 1, she said she discovered the front door unlocked and her apartment ransacked.

As she examined her apartment, she opened her closet door to find a woman crouched inside, clutching several of Ms. Heinzman’s kitchen utensils, according to the Irvine Police Department.

“She just looked at me like a deer in headlights and I just screamed, ‘Get out! get out!’” Ms. Heinzman told local news outlet KTLA.

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