Pinellas Burglar Awoken By Resident; Goes Back To Sleep

TARPON SPRINGS, FL -- A 30-year-old man is in custody after he was accused of breaking into a Tarpon Springs home and falling asleep in an unoccupied child's bed.

Tarpon Springs Police Officers responded to a home in the 1700 block of Coppertree Drive on Thursday, April 18 at 7:40 a.m. after receiving a call about a burglary in progress.

The resident told police she awoke that morning to find an unknown man sleeping in her child's bed. The child had fallen asleep on the living room couch.

The resident woke up Christopher Matthew Weyh and asked him what he was doing there. Weyh yelled at the resident and then went back to sleep.

The resident left the home and called police from a neighbor's house. Weyh was still sleeping when Tarpon Springs police arrived. When officers questioned him, they say Weyh became verbally and physically combative, and police has to use a taser to subdue him.

No property was taken and Weyh didn't harm any residents in the home.

Police said Weyh does have a family member who lives in the area and may have thought he was in that family member's home.

Weyh was charged with trespass in a structure, resisting an officer without violence and two counts of violation of probation for possession of narcotics and trafficking in stolen property.

He was transported to the Pinellas County Jail.