PennWatch helps catch intruder

That's the situation Delta Upsilon brother and PennWatch participant Alex Dunne found himself in Monday night as he walked down the 4000 block of Walnut Street in front of his house. Dunne said that he, another DU brother, and two Phi Sigma Sigma sisters were completing one of their rounds, when he spotted a man in the alley next to the DU house, looking into one of the windows. Dunne, a College junior, said he told the man to "get away from our house," but the suspect remained. He said that when he called University Police on his radio, which all PennWatch volunteers carry, the man realized that police were coming and jumped over the fence into the next yard. Dunne, who was in constant contact with police, said the suspect walked around the fence and "and he ultimately appeared in front of a house," further down the block. About 10 University Police officers came within "a half a minute," according to Dunne, who said he watched the suspect the entire time. Two University Police cruisers arrived and other officers arrived on foot, he said. Police said the man had been arrested previously in connection with a burglary on the 4100 block of Walnut Street and that University Police had received several reports of a suspicious man walking through the area that night, according to Dunne. University Police Sergeant Michael Fink said yesterday that University Police questioned and released the man at about 12:52 a.m.

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