A New Jersey burglar hid under a bed in a family’s home for as many as three days, apparently going without food but still managing to charge his cell phone, The New York Daily News is reporting .
This all took place in May, but the story is only now making the national news; the city of Spotswood, N.J. only releases their police records to the media every six months , according to People .
Police say Jason Hubbard walked into a Spotswood home through an open door when the homeowner wasn’t looking. Then, apparently fearing he was about to get caught, the burglar hid under a bed in a guest room. Little did he know he would be spending the next several days there.
WABC (New York) reports that homeowner Margaret Adamcewicz discovered the burglar around 7:00 P.M. on May 10. She called 911.
“He was hiding upstairs underneath the bed, in my daughter’s bedroom. He used to date my daughter five years ago…It didn’t end well…He didn’t say why he came back. He just picked our house to hide out in. He didn’t have a home to live in.”
So maybe he wasn’t a burglar, maybe he was just a transient looking for a place to stay?
Regardless, Ms. Adamcewicz wasn’t at all pleased with having an intruder in her home.
“I haven’t heard from him in five years. I wasn’t scared, I was just angry.”
So what was the burglar doing all that time while he hid under the bed? Starving, apparently.
“I don’t think he was eating. I think he just had water under the bed.”
But at least he had his cell phone games to keep him busy; police say Hubbard managed to charge his cell phones – four of them – several times through an electrical outlet under the bed where he hid. Presumably, he had his cell phone games to keep him company.
This is not the first case of a homeowner discovering a stranger living in their home right under their nose: in 2013, a group of Ohio State University students discovered that a “friend” of theirs had been secretly living in the basement of their off-campus house, according to this Inquisitr report.
As for the New Jersey burglar, he was arrested and booked on charges of criminal trespass, burglary, and – of all things – theft of electricity (for charging his cell phones).
[Image courtesy of: Spotswood Police Department via Gawker ]
