A series of home invasions, some of which authorities believe are related, occurred at off-campus and sorority houses this past weekend — resulting in the arrest of one male suspect and the continued search for another.
Ann Arbor Police arrested a man suspected of committing five home invasions on
on both Washtenaw and North University avenues Friday and early Saturday night after police identified the man walking down the street.
The man was arrested on warrants and not for the two home invasions that occurred on Saturday, according to AAPD Lt. Myron Blackwell. However, Blackwell said police suspect the man was involved in the home invasions because he fit the description provided by the victims.
Blackwell added that the same officers who took all five home invasion reports spotted the man in the vicinity of where the home invasions took place.
“Based on reports of yesterday and reports of today, the officers said, ‘Wait a minute, that’s the guy who was wearing the same clothes from yesterday,’ ” he said.
Blackwell did not know the exact location of where the man was apprehended, but said the arrest occurred in the area of Washtenaw and North University avenues.
According to Blackwell, the man is in his early 20s. Blackwell did not know if the man is a University student.
The AAPD will be contacting the victims of the home invasions to see if they can identify the man. If they identify him as the invader, Blackwell said the man would be charged.
In a separate incident, two sororities on Hill Street — Alpha Phi and the Delta Delta Delta senior house — were broken into Saturday night.
AAPD Sgt. Andrew Zazula said a male wandered into the houses, but nothing was reported as stolen from either property. He added that the man has not been caught.
According to the AAPD, the suspect is described as a black male in his early 40s. At the time of the incident, he was reported to be wearing a black — possibly leather — jacket, gloves and a winter hat.
According to Nursing senior Stephanie Conn, the Panhellenic Association’s vice president of public relations, the first break in occurred before 8 p.m. Conn said in an interview Sunday that the women did not encounter any difficulties when they asked the man to leave and escorted him out.
Conn added that other chapters have since been informed of the incident.
“An e-mail was sent out yesterday just as a warning ‘Oh look, this happened, but there was no problem,’ ” she said.