Sleeping Minor Caught After Burglarizing Classroom

Update:

Tbe boy arrested turned out to be a runaway and a reported missing person from outside Sacramento County, Sheriff's spokesman Jason Ramos said.

"He was probably on the run, with nowhere to go really, and decided that he could get some food and a place to sleep (or at least lay low) for a night," Ramos said in an e-mail. "His parents were not notified because of his group home status."

Ramos explained the group home was notified.

Original story:

When deputes were dispatched in response to a burlgary alarm at Orangevale's Thomas Coleman Elementary School, finding the suspect asleep on a classroom couch was only the first surprise the would-be burglar would have in store for them.

As it turns out the suspect was also a minor, but it'd be sometime before the deputies discovered that morself of information.

On April 11, around 2:26 a.m., after responding to the alarm, deputies located a classroom's broken window. Inside the classroom deputies found the suspect, 16, sleeping on the couch, a metal drain cover used to break the window and eaten food. The food, it turns out, put the boy into a slumber, according to the deputies' report.

The boy was transported to Sacramento County's main jail, where it was discovered the boy was in fact a minor and had falsely identified himself as an adult.

Deputies then transported the boy to the Sacramento County Juvenine Hall where he was booked on trespassing charges.