COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Having removed several electronics components from a woman’s home Sunday, a sleepy man stretched out on a couch inside and snoozed away to dreamland, police said.

He awoke to a burglary suspect’s nightmare.

The 40-year-old parolee from Kalamazoo was arrested by a Kalamazoo County sheriff’s deputy who was called to the Comstock Township house after a woman arrived home at about 11:40 a.m. to find a door ajar, her house ransacked and the feet of a sleeping stranger hanging off one end of her couch, Lt. Jim VanDyken said.

“The guy was sound asleep,” VanDyken said.

VanDyken said a window in the rear of the house was damaged and open when the 37-year-old woman arrived home.

The electronics stacked in the driveway included a printer, laptop computer, TV, DVD player and home-theater system.

A deputy also found jewelry belonging to the woman in the man’s pockets, the lieutenant said.

The man, whose name was not released, was arrested on charges of second-degree home invasion and larceny in a building and taken to the Kalamazoo County Jail. VanDyken said the man was expected to be arraigned Tuesday in Kalamazoo County District Court.

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(Rex Hall Jr. is a reporter for the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Gazette. He can be contacted at rhall(at)kalamazoogazette.com.)

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