MIAMI — A Miami woman, home with a child, noticed her bathroom window had been propped up with a hammer just before 5 p.m. Wednesday and went to her kitchen to find a shirtless stranger inside, police said. They said he would take off and go on to commit two more burglaries in the city’s Shorecrest neighborhood before being arrested.
Investigators said Nathan Ulseth, 36, was targeting homes in the area of Northeast 10th Avenue and 84th Street.
Miami police said after committing the first burglary, in which he caused about $200 worth of damage to a door frame, he went to another home. There, a neighbor heard banging and asked the homeowner, sitting outside, if he had been making noise.
After he said he wasn’t, police said the neighbor began investigating and saw a side window propped open with a blanket. An arrest report states that the neighbor then saw Ulseth in another backyard, holding “a black bookbag and a white Medline plastic bag.”
Police said he recorded Ulseth “grabbing a black bicycle and leaving the backyard.”
They said that bicycle had been stolen from that third home, where a woman had called police after seeing Ulseth entering her shed.
Police said at 6 p.m., they found Ulseth hiding under a parked car at a home on Northeast 84th Street.
They said he had a cocaine pipe, as well as insurance cards and keys to a Ford Bronco belonging to one of the victims. The report states they also found one victim’s credit card and miscellaneous belongings, “which included lipstick and a jar of coins,” belonging to another.
Police arrested Ulseth, who is homeless, on three burglary charges, plus individual counts of unlawful possession of a credit or debit card, cocaine possession, theft of a credit card, trespassing, criminal mischief and possession of drug paraphernalia.
As of Thursday afternoon, Ulseth was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a bond listed in online records as “to be set.”
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