Police Looking For Man In Morning Home Invasion

Police are looking for a man who broke into a Lewis Court home Wednesday morning and fled when confronted by a resident of the house.

The incident happened shortly before 11 am. The woman resident, on the second floor of the house, heard someone trying to open a rear sliding glass door. She went into the kitchen to find an unknown man, who ran out the back, scaled a fence and ran in a westerly direction toward Bailey's Corner Road, Sgt. Erik Ertle said.

Police scoured the area with a K-9 unit but came up empty. Dogs tracked the suspect north on Bailey's Corner Road toward 18th Avenue. Lewis Court is a cul-du-sac between Allaire Road and 18th Avenue, Ertle said.

An officer has been stationed near Wall High School as a precaution and district administrators have been alerted to the situation, Ertle said.

The suspect is described as a white man, standing between 6-foot 4-inches and 6-foot 5-inches wearing a blue sweatshirt, blue jeans and brown boots.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the Wall Township Police Tip Line at (732) 280-4388.