Tools of the Trade

A plumber working in Norfolk found another job to do during his lunch break, police said. A man who lives on Tucker Road left his home around noontime Saturday, January 23 and left the garage door open, said Norfolk Police Lieuten­ant Jon Carroll. The man’s 21-year-old woman was upstairs when she heard a noise and went to the stairs, where she encountered a man. “He was on his way up the stairs. So she screamed, he turned around and ran out,” Carroll said. The woman hit the panic button on a home alarm, and the alarm company alerted Norfolk police at 12:11 p.m. Carroll said. The woman got the make and model of the vehicle (a gray Ford pickup truck) and the license plate number, which police traced to a 34-year-old Mansfieldman who is a self-employed plumber. “He was located on a job site. He was doing a plumbing job in Norfolk,” Carroll said. Police found him at a home on Frederickson Road.

The man was charged with breaking and en­tering during the daytime with intent to commit a felony and two counts of possession of a Class B substance (Percoset and Vicodin).