Police have snared a suspected thief after tracing his footprints in fresh snow.
Pcs Dylan Middlemiss and Meggan Rutherford were called out to a report of suspicious activity at an address in Spennymoor, County Durham, just after midnight on Friday.
After a brief survey of the scene, they noticed tracks left in the fresh snow.
The officers traced the footprints and saw their suspect had attempted to get into garages and open car doors.
They also found an abandoned bike by the tracks.
The trail continued and the officers eventually found a man sitting in a parked BMW smoking a cigarette.
Durham Police said, he was ‘blissfully unaware he had been rumbled – by the weather’.
The officers arrested a 45-year-old on suspicion of attempted burglary, theft, vehicle interference, possession of a controlled substance, going equipped for stealing and possession of a bladed article.
He was being held at Durham police station.
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