Man caught after breaking into Garden Grove home

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (KABC) -- A 23-year-old man was captured by surveillance camera trying to flee the yard of a Garden Grove home.

Police said the suspect, identified as Noe Gonzalez, got into the house through an unlocked patio door and entered a bedroom.

A 16-year-old girl said she woke up when he began patting her bed.

"At first I thought it was my dad, but he didn't respond when I asked him, 'what?' again. So I realized that it wasn't my dad so I asked him, 'who are you?' and he didn't respond. So after that I tried to open my door and he got in my way so I pushed him," she said.

She ran to her parent's room to wake them up and get help. Gonzalez left through the patio door and climbed over the fence. He went into a neighbor's yard, where he found a woman who let her dog out and left the kitchen door ajar.

Gonzales fled when the woman yelled for her husband. After a search of the neighborhood, police found him hiding in another backyard and sent in a K-9 unit.

"The suspect did fight with the police dog and began to choke him, actually choke the dog. At that point a Garden Grove police officer used his Taser to incapacitate the suspect and bring him into custody," Lt. Thomas Dare said.

Now that the teenager knows Gonzalez will be in jail, she said it brings a sense of relief to the neighborhood.