NORWICH – City Police officers responding to a complaint of a disorderly man along Midland Drive were searching the area for the subject when they spotted a burglar through a window inside the Norwich Middle School.

Police responded to a call of a disorderly man walking down Midland Drive at about 3:50 a.m. Sunday morning. When a patrol arrived and began searching the street for the subject, one of the officers noticed a broken window leading into the Norwich City Middle School.

As the officer approached the broken window to investigate, he saw through the glass a man wearing dark clothes looking back at him just inside the building.

The officer shouted an order for the man to stop, but the suspect immediately fled from the patrol to the interior of the building, reported Norwich Police Sgt. Gard Turner, who was the officer in charge of the shift at the time.