He was burglarized once. The second time he was ready

The owner of a Walnut Avenue garage wasn’t going to be a victim a second time.

After burglars sneaked into his detached garage last week, the owner bought an alarm system and set it up, Pasco police said.

Then about 12:30 a.m. Thursday, the alarm sounded.

The owner shut it off and called police. As officers arrived and surrounded the garage, a 17-year-old teen darted out of the garage’s back door and jumped the fence into an adjoining lot.

That lot happened to be surrounded by a barbed-wire fence and with officers waiting on the other side.

When he spotted the officers, the teen gave up and was booked into the Benton-Franklin Juvenile Detention Center on suspicion of second-degree burglary.

This story was originally published February 1, 2018 at 12:51 PM with the headline "He was burglarized once. The second time he was ready."