Intoxicated Man Walked Into Saddle Brook Home: Cops

SADDLE BROOK, NJ - Police are investigating a report of an intoxicated man reportedly entering a home early Sunday morning in Saddle Brook.

Chief Robert Kugler said around 3 a.m., a man walked into a Congress Street home through an unlocked front door and found his way into a bedroom.

A woman who lived at the home was asleep on a living room couch at the time and a man was sleeping in the bedroom, Kugler said.

The intruder shouted “you ok?” to the man asleep in the bedroom and the quickly exited the home through the same door he entered, Kugler said.

“As he was walking through the living room, he either tripped over the living room table or somehow tipped it over,” the chief said. “There was no forced entry nor was anything taken from the home.”

When the residents contacted police about the incident, they indicated the man appeared to be drunk, Kugler said.

The man was described as being white, heavy set and about six feet tall, with a small beard and dark, shoulder length hair. Camera surveillance footage from the area showed a dark colored sedan pulling up to the home and a man exiting from the passenger door, the chief said.

The man was then seen walking into the home and a minute later, leaving the house, getting back into the car and the vehicle driving off, the chief said.

Kugler said authorities do not believe it was a “violent intrusion with criminal intent” but more likely “an intoxicated person at the wrong address” but are continuing to investigate.