DELPHOS — A man was apprehended Friday morning after a second home invasion attempt in Delphos in as many days.
According to the Delphos Police Department, at 7:52 a.m. Friday, officers were alerted to a reported burglary at 1009 W. Second St. The female homeowner was sitting on her couch when she heard the front door open and a man begin to enter the house. After the homeowner yelled and charged toward the door, the man ran from the residence.
“He partially entered the home, and the resident saw him and ran over and stopped the door, and once he realized someone was there, he took off running,” Delphos Police Chief Mark Slate said.
After a short chase, Jesse A. Hodgson, 29, was caught behind a local business just north of state Route 697. He was then transported to Van Wert County Jail, where he awaits a charge of burglary, a second-degree felony.
Slate credited public assistance in apprehending Hodgson.
“Thank goodness there were people in the neighborhood who were out and heard the commotion and came out and saw him running,” he said. “They told officers, ‘He went this way, he went this way.’ The citizens played a huge role in apprehending him, and we are grateful to them for that.”
Officers from the Allen and Van Wert County sheriff’s offices and the Elida Police Department assisted in the search.
The Delphos Police Department is also considering Hodgson a person of interest in the Thursday morning burglary on Leonard Avenue in Delphos. Evidence in that case is still pending at the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation crime lab in Bowling Green.
While Hodgson is being considered as a possible suspect in the incident Thursday, there is no apparent connection between him and a home invasion in early July that left an elderly couple hospitalized.
“We’re looking at it, but we don’t have any links to that right now,” Slate said. “We’re considering the possibility, and all of the stuff we took from that scene is at the lab and is being processed, so if it comes back that there is something that deserves a link, then, obviously, our investigation will move in a different way. But as of right now, we have no link to that.”
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