MANCHESTER BY THE SEA, MASS. (WHDH) - A Gloucester man is facing a breaking and entering charge after police say he broke into a woman’s house in Manchester-by-the-Sea on Sunday while dressed as a pirate and clutching a small dog.
Officers responding to a reported break-in at a home on Raymond Street spoke with a woman who said she fell asleep on the couch and awoke to find a man, later identified as 79-year-old Herbert Gleason, standing over her in full pirate garb, according to Manchester-by-the-Sea police.
After he fled when she screamed, police officers searching for the 2002 Dodge Ram that he fled the area in located him driving in Gloucester and placed him under arrest after determining he was driving with a revoked license, police said.
When they found him, police say he was wearing a black bandana, a black button-up shirt, black pants, a brown leather belt with a gold chain pendants intertwined in it, and was not wearing shoes.
When the woman positively identified him as the man who entered her house, he was arrested on an additional charge of breaking and entering during the daytime to commit a felony and put a person in fear.
Police say they do not believe the man was drunk during the incident.
He is facing several charges.
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