Mobile police arrest local man after alleged home invasion: MPD

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MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile Police Department officers have arrested a man accused of breaking into a woman’s home armed with a gun.

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According to an MPD news release, officers were called to the 3600 block of Brown Road just before 9 p.m. on Wednesday, March 25, for a report of a home invasion.

When officers arrived, they said they heard that a man, now identified as 64-year-old Arthur Pledger, of Mobile, had broken into the woman’s home with a gun.

Officials said Pledger was searching for a handgun that he thought was stolen by the woman earlier in the day.

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Pledger was arrested and charged with first-degree burglary…

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