Shoreline Police have arrested a man they believe is responsible for five rather bizarre burglaries in the Shoreline area, and could be connected to four similar burglaries in the Lake Forest Park area.

Police say the man would break into homes while people slept, then help himself to some food that was either in the homeowner's refrigerator or cupboards.

Sunday night, officers responded to a theft call at a church in the 2300 block of NE 185th Street in Shoreline, said Det. Christina Bartlett with the King County Sheriff's Department.

When officers arrived, church members were holding the suspect, and police have since determined this man was likely the man who had broken into the other nine homes.

The burglar had been quite brazen. At Julie Sanchez' home in Shoreline, the burglar struck just moments after the turned their lights out for the night, and ignored the home security warnings -- there was even a sticker on the window he came in through.

As for his entry, he sliced the screen of a kitchen window with a knife, then forced open the window, even though it was only open only a quarter of an inch.

Once he got inside, the man raided the garage freezer and polished off six creamsicles. Then he went upstairs into the kitchen and again, the burglar raided the fridge.

"Ate all the lunchmeat, went through the candy," Sanchez said. "Ate some food that was sitting out on the stove."

That's not all. He drank the kids' juice from their sippy cups, then he opened up a box of cookie dough before digging through cabinets in search of M&M's. The man took off when Sanchez woke up to check on the family dog.

"It's very, very scary. Very horrifying to know that somebody's in your house," she said.

Det. Bartlett said in another case, the man took food from the freezer, defrosted it, then cooked it and ate it while inside the home.

The suspect was booked into the King County Jail.