AMHERSTBURG, Ontario — Police responding to a break-in report shortly after 8 a.m. found the woman they were looking for in a bed. She was asleep. Whatever the officers had expected when they heard “break-in in progress,” it probably wasn’t a scene that called for an alarm clock.
The call brought officers from the Windsor Police Service’s Amherstburg detachment to a home on Victoria Street South on Nov. 4. They went inside, found the woman and arrested her without incident. There was no chase. The only person who had gone to much trouble getting in, according to investigators, was the woman herself.
Police say she removed an air-conditioning unit cover and climbed through the opening, damaging the home in the process. That’s a fair bit of work to get to a mattress. It’s also where the police account leaves off: Officers didn’t say how long she’d been asleep, what she’d gone there for or whether the nap was part of the plan.
There’s one detail that makes this a little less like creepy: Windsor News Today reported that the tenant knew the woman. The outlet also reported that no one else was home at the time. So there was no startled resident coming home to find somebody in bed. The police got that part.
Stephanie Brochert, 46, was charged with being unlawfully in a dwelling and mischief under $5,000. Police also arrested her on an outstanding warrant in an unrelated case.
As for the bed, police didn’t say whether it was too hard, too soft or just right. We only know the nap ended before checkout.
