By SALINA POST
The Salina Police Department arrested a 45-year-old man Monday afternoon following an attempted break-in at a residence in the 200 block of Des Moines Avenue.
SPD officers responded to a 911 call from a 47-year-old female Salina resident at around 12:15 p.m. The victim reported that her former neighbor, identified as John W. Harper, approached her home armed with a handgun with the intent to enter her property, according to SPD Capt. James Feldman.
During the incident, Harper allegedly damaged a storm door handle and removed a doorbell camera before fleeing the scene in a vehicle before officers arrived.
At around 1:30 p.m., SPD received a FLOCK safety license plate reader alert indicating Harper’s vehicle was in the area of Broadway Boulevard and Crawford Street. Officers located the vehicle and conducted a traffic stop near Haskett Avenue and Maple Street, where Harper was taken into custody without incident. A subsequent search of his vehicle reportedly uncovered the handgun described by the victim.
Harper was booked into the Saline County Jail on multiple charges, including attempted aggravated burglary, aggravated assault, stalking, criminal possession of a firearm, theft, damage to property, and criminal trespass.