Resident Catches Men Trying to Open His Window

A man is being charged for trying to break into a St. Charles house while the resident was home, according to a police report.

Michael C. Matthews, 20, of the 1000 block of Vine Street, was charged Thursday for attempted first-degree burglary.

St. Charles Police said Matthews and another unknown man knocked a front door June 18 in the 700 block of North Duchesne in St. Charles. When no one answered the door, they went around back and removed a screen from rear window and tried to open the window, police said.

They were interrupted by the resident. Matthews told the owner that his daughter kicked a ball on the roof and asked if he could get it down, as the unknown man ran away. When the resident replied that he could get the ball down, Matthews ran in the same direction as the unknown man, police reported.

Police found a fingerprint on the window that matches Matthews, and the resident’s description matched him. Matthews told police he wasn’t at the scene. He could not explain how his fingerprint came to be on the window.

Bail was set at $15,000 for Matthews.

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