A 39-year-old Edmonds man was arrested June 28 on suspicion of breaking into a Mill Creek home.
The burglary attempt was thwarted when a 14-year-old girl called 911 immediately.
On June 28, she was home alone watching television when a man she didn’t know began ringing her doorbell. After ringing it several times, the man began kicking the door.
The girl grabbed her cordless phone, crawled under the deck behind her house and called 911.
She heard the crash inside when the man broke the door down.
“I thought I was going to die,” she said. “I thought I was never going to see my family again.”
The girl’s quick phone call led police to arrest the Edmonds man, whom they believe broke into her Mill Creek home. The Enterprise is not publishing her name because the ordeal has left her family frightened.
Police also believe the man may be connected to dozens of burglaries in Mill Creek-area neighborhoods this year.
Police found the man’s car running in front of the girl’s home, and he was found hiding in bushes about a block away, Mill Creek police spokeswoman Becky Erk said.
The man was arrested on unrelated warrants and is being held at the Snohomish County Jail in Everett. Investigators hope to pursue charges of residential burglary, possession of stolen property and drug violations, Erk said.
Investigators found jewelry, two sound-mix boards, two cameras, a cell phone, a VCR, two sets of silverware, suspected drugs, drug paraphernalia and roughly $6,000 worth of baseball cards in the man’s car, Erk said. Police are still trying to determine whether the items are stolen.
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