ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A terrifying morning for a father, in a wheelchair, and his son in a southeast Albuquerque apartment, when a man on the run from police burst into their home. Albuquerque Police Department (APD) said the man had already broken into another home, led police on a car chase, then fled on foot, before he entered the family’s apartment. They suspect he was running around the neighborhood trying to break into people’s homes to hide.
A chilling moment for an Albuquerque man in a wheelchair when an intruder barges in. “I was in fear for my life and my son,” said Anthony Nichogi, who was in his home near Gibson and Yale with his young son. His wife had left the home, leaving the door unlocked, and within a minute, a man came in. “He reached for me and I told him, please don’t touch me. Please get out of my house,” said Nichogi.
Police said that man is Michael Salas, who has an extensive history of burglary arrests and convictions. Albuquerque police said before this incident, Salas had broken into another home, and officers were trying to chase him down. Officers followed him after deploying a GPS dart on his car and then pursued him on foot. Nichogi said with a history of other break-ins in the neighborhood, he is prepared. “You know, I have video footage of all the five years’ worth of incidents and I’m expecting it,” said Nichogi.
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Once Salas broke in, Nichogi repeatedly told him to leave and made his way to the bedroom to get his mace. “I turned my chair around and as I went into the bedroom to go unlock it and retrieve it, he followed me into the bedroom,” he said…