San Diego Sheriff’s Deputies arrested a man for burglary in Lakeside Monday morning after employees found him drinking tea in the kitchen area.
Employees at the Lakeside River Park Conservancy at the 12000 block of Industry Road discovered their office had been broken into Sunday morning around 8 a.m.
Security footage showed a man walking around the office, eating the food and tampering with the alarm system.
According to officials Joshua Parnell, 27, broke into the office, scattered food on tables and stole a laptop. He also dismantled the alarm system from the wall.
When deputies asked Parnell, identified in the security footage, what he was doing at the office again on Monday he said he had climbed in through the window and offered to clean up when he was done.
He was arrested without incident. The Conservancy estimated the damage at around $600.
There was no word on whether the laptop was returned.
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The investigation is ongoing.
