Published November 19. 2014 11:00PM
Police arrested two men after a Hillside Avenue resident reported an alleged break-in around 12:15 p.m. Nov. 12.
According to police, the Lehigh University student returned to her residence to find a man inside. The man fled and the victim called police.
City and Lehigh officers quickly coordinated a search and found the suspect and another man within a half-hour. They allegedly had a flatscreen TV and drugs between them.
Reviewing footage from newly-installed public cameras near campus, police placed both men at the residence. Further investigation connected the suspects with two other burglaries in the past several weeks.
Christopher Kratzer, 30, no address, is charged with four counts each of burglary, theft, tresspassing, receiving stolen property and eight counts of criminal conspiracy.
Jonathan Garcia, 24, of East Mechanic Street, is also charged with eight counts of conspiracy and two counts of each of the other charges.