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ALL THESE TO CATCH A BAREFOOT 'BURGLAR' Police dogs Gurha soldiers Cops in uniform, plainclothes Special ops vehicles May 26, 2008 FOR just one young man suspected of breaking into a house, the police dispatched a large force to seal a hill. ? Picture: Shin Min Daily After an extensive search lasting four hours, they captured the suspect. At about 6.30am yesterday, police got information that there was a break-in at a house on Arcadia Road off Adam Road. They immediately sent a patrol car to check. A Shin Min Daily News reporter, who got a tip-off from a reader, rushed to the area and saw six police cars. Three policemen, with a police dog each, searched the nearby wooded area. Another police dog awaited orders. It was 10.30am when police sent seven 'red cars' carrying policemen believed to be from Special Operations Command to the area. Some 20 plainclothes and uniformed policemen started surrounding the hilltop, conducting a thorough search operation. Not long later, Gurkha soldiers and more special forces policemen arrived to join in the search, Shin Min Daily News reported. An hour after, police nabbed a man who looked to be in his 20s. He was handcuffed with his hands behind his back. This man wasn't wearing any shoes as he walked out. His head was held low. He wore a dark blue T-shirt and pants. Residents said he looked familiar, and that he could be a foreign worker from a nearby construction site. A police spokesman confirmed that they detained a man suspected of breaking-and-entering, and they are still investigating. At the hilltop of Arcadia Road, there are two condominiums and several colonial-era black-and-white bungalows. It is understood the burglary had happened in one of those bungalows. After taking the man away, police continued to search the wooded area to ensure he had no accomplices. They wrapped up the search at 12.20pm. http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,...,165754,00.html?