POLAND – Police who arrested a burglary suspect inside a seafood restaurant Monday night said it was the man’s thirst that gave him away.

Robert Doyle, 35, was arrested after allegedly breaking into The Flying Lobster, not once but twice, for beer.

Investigators said Doyle sneaked into the Route 26 eatery at about 11 p.m. Monday by crawling through a kitchen window. The restaurant had closed, but an employee remained in the building on another floor, police said.

The employee called police when she heard someone in the kitchen area of the building. Police who responded said they found Doyle inside the restaurant.

“He was still drinking the beer,” said Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Detective Rielly Bryant.

Investigators said Doyle had been drinking at the restaurant earlier in the night. After he was asked to leave at closing time, Doyle sneaked back in through the window and snuck a beer from the cooler, police said.

Doyle finished that beer and left the restaurant. But minutes later, his thirst not quite quenched, the suspect returned to The Flying Lobster by crawling through the same kitchen window, police said.

There was no indication Doyle was after money or other items inside the restaurant, police said. He simply grabbed 12-ounce Heinekens from a cooler and sat down to relax.

When sheriff’s deputies Delbert Mason and Jeff Baril got to the restaurant, they found Doyle with his second stolen beer nearly finished, police said.

Doyle, who lives in Poland, was charged with two counts of burglary.