Dimwitted crook leaves cell phone at break-in site

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Story Created: Oct 27, 2009 at 8:30 AM PDT

Story Updated: Oct 27, 2009 at 8:30 AM PDT

By Associated Press

VISALIA, Calif. (AP) - A Central California burglary suspect is behind bars after investigators say he dropped his cell phone outside a home that had been broken into.

Fresno County authorities say deputies responded to burglar alarms going off at an Orange Cove home on Saturday afternoon. They found the phone near a broken window.

Sheriff's spokesman Chris Curtice says investigators called people on the phone's contact list and asked them to have the owner call them back so they could return the phone.

A 22-year-old Visalia man did call investigators back. But when he met with investigators, instead of getting his phone back, the man was arrested on suspicion of burglary. His name was not released.

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