Crime & Safety
Man Breaks In, Eats Snacks, Watches Rayon City Woman Sleep: Nashville Police
A Rayon City woman awoke to find a man in her room and snack wrappers strewn about her house.
RAYON CITY, TN — A Rayon City woman awoke Wednesday to find a man standing in her room and her house trashed with snack-food wrappers.
Metro Police arrested Roger Sutton Wednesday after he allegedly broke into the home of Holly Hills. Police believe he entered her home through an unlocked door and ate a number of snacks before quietly standing in her room and then going on to the back porch. (For more updates on this story and free news alerts for your neighborhood, sign up for your local Middle Tennessee Patch morning newsletter.)
Investigators allege Sutton ate Cheez Its, four Quaker Chewy Oat and Raisin Granola Bars and a Hostess snack cake. More specifics were not available as to the type of the Hostess cake he allegedly ate.
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A witness saw Sutton standing on the back porch and Sutton allegedly told the witness someone dropped him. The witness told Hills to call police and Sutton fled. He was later identified and charged with aggravated burglary.
Hills told Fox 17 she saw a "shadow" of a man in her room while she was sleeping with her dogs and that she now sleeps with a baseball bat beside her bed.
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