Guelph man arrested after student house was entered while residents slept

Guelph Police are investigating after a man entered a student house while the residents were asleep on Saturday morning.

Police say it happened sometime between 5 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. at a home on Cole Road.

“While a visitor slept on the living room couch, the suspect removed items from the same room including a MacBook, two gaming systems and the keys to an Acura TL,” police said in a media release Monday.

The Acura was later found abandoned in a parking lot on Willow Road.

According to authorities, security video showed a man leaving the vehicle and walking to a nearby apartment building carrying some of the stolen property.

Officers then obtained a warrant to search an apartment unit, where they recovered some stolen property as well as suspected fentanyl.

A 56-year-old man from Guelph, who was not responsible for the student house theft, was arrested for possession of stolen property and possession of a controlled substance.

Police said the robbery suspect has still not been located.