Banning Man Barges Into Random Beaumont House: Police

BEAUMONT, CA — A man who allegedly barged into a Beaumont home in full view of a police officer patrolling the neighborhood, then shut himself inside the residence while the homeowner was inside, was in custody Thursday. Police say the man did not know the resident.

According to Beaumont police, the incident unfolded around 8 a.m. Wednesday in the 1500 block of Leland Street, which is just south of the local Kohl's. An officer on routine patrol spotted a man running in the neighborhood and hiding on a local porch.

"The same subject then ran from that residence across the street again and began pounding on the door of a second residence," police said in a news release. "The homeowner opened the door and the subject forcibly pushed open the door."

Apparently thinking it was a police officer at the door after seeing the patrol car out front, the resident opened the door to the intruder, police said.

Police say Travis Wayne Sangster, 25, burst inside and shut the door behind him. The patrolling officer approached the door and "heard screaming coming from inside the home," which was later determined to be Sangster allegedly yelling at the homeowner.

The officer entered the home and detained Sangster, while the homeowner "was shaken, but was uninjured," according to police.

Sangster was being held on suspicion of burglary at the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility in Banning in lieu of $35,000 bail.

— City News Service contributed to this report / Image courtesy of the Beaumont Police Department