A couple who allegedly broke into a Port Orchard residence Sunday morning weren’t inside for long before police surrounded the house and waited for them to come out.

After a neighbor in the 2200 block of Flower Avenue called 9-1-1 around 6:45 a.m. to report a possible burglary in progress at the vacant house next door, the first officers to arrive found a step ladder that went up to a broken window at the rear of the house and could hear someone moving around inside.

According to charging documents filed in Kitsap County District Court, one of the officers reported that after a female looked out a window and saw him, he heard “someone running through the house and what sounded like running into furniture.”

Moments later, a male raised the blinds at another window and started to climb out, only to encounter two officers who ordered him at gunpoint to lie on the bed inside the room. He was taken into custody, and the female suspect was detained when she ran out the front door.

According to the report, the 32-year old Port Orchard man who was arrested told officers he had lived in the house a long time ago, and that he and the 21-year-old Belfair woman with him had entered the house to get out of the rain and to “just be together.”

After the woman gave officers consent to search the car they had left parked a block from the vacant house, police found drug and paraphernalia under the front seat.

The two suspects were taken to the Kitsap County jail and booked for residential burglary, with bail set at $25,000 each.