A teenage girl who attempted to sneak out of a home in Newark’s North Ward was mistaken by residents as a burglar early on Thursday morning.
According to police, at approximately 12:40 a.m., residents in the 50’s block of North 7th Street contacted police after they believe they saw a person using a ladder to get to the second-floor window of a home in an attempt to burglarize the residence.
Police arrived and set up a perimeter around the homes where they searched for a possible suspect after finding the ladder extended to an open window.
It was ultimately determined that a teenage girl resident was using the ladder to sneak out of the home without her parents knowing.
Police broke down the perimeter without further incident.