{"id":368628,"date":"2025-12-25T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/368628\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T02:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T02:42:08","slug":"report-of-suspicious-person-leads-to-arrest-for-attempted-breaking-and-entering-drugs-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/368628\/","title":{"rendered":"Report of suspicious person leads to arrest for attempted breaking and entering, drugs, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/d65754bef64f12c2d1159cbec618a919.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A person has been arrested on attempted breaking and entering and drug charges following a report of a suspicious person in Leicester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Leicester police responded to Pleasant Street around 11:45 a.m. on December 20, after someone reported seeing a suspicious man walking through a yard and trying to get into a house, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police located a person matching the description of the person walking on Pleasant Street, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police stopped Michael Burnette, 59 of Southbridge. A search of Burnette located two knives, drug paraphernalia, and suspected crack cocaine, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Burnette was arrested on two counts of Breaking and Entering, as well as a charge of Possession of a Class B Controlled Substance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Burnette was held on $2,500 cash bail. He was arraigned in East Brookfield District Court on December 22, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/news\/local\/have-new-device-get-our-free-boston-25-news-weather-apps\/PDC6X7UKOFDBVPV5YJHG3CX36I\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE Boston 25 News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE Boston 25 News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Boston 25 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Boston25News\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/boston25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/video\/live-stream\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch Boston 25 News NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch Boston 25 News NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person has been arrested on attempted breaking and entering and drug charges following a report of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21551,4,450,451,180930,180929,3,180928,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-368628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-and-entering","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-leicester-police","13":"tag-michael-burnette","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-suspicious-person","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}