Sleeping Woman Awakes to Burglar in Brooklyn Home, Starts Screaming: Police

Authorities are looking for a man who sneaked into a woman's Brooklyn apartment as she slept one November morning and fled when she woke up and started to scream.

The suspect broke into the 38-year-old woman's Herkimer Street home in Bedford-Stuyvesant shortly before 8:30 a.m. Nov. 23. She woke up and started to yell and the man fled before he had time to take anything.

Police released a photo of the suspect (above).

Anyone with information about him is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.

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