A 20-year-old man from the Lawton area is facing charges after he broke into a home while intoxicated and fell asleep on Monday morning. The Van Buren County Sheriff’s Department says deputies were called to the home in the 39,000 block of County Road 669 in Decatur Township around 2:30 a.m. The homeowner had called to report a man had come into the home, gone into a bedroom, and then passed out. The homeowner did not know the intruder, and did not give him permission to come inside. A relative was able to detain the suspect until police arrived. On investigation, sheriff’s deputies learned the man was drunk, had crashed his car, and then had walked to the victim’s home. He was arrested and taken to the Van Buren County Jail on charges of breaking and entering, drunk driving, not having insurance, and leaving the scene of crash.
