Police say chocolate syrup tied man to Pennsylvania burglaries

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BETHLEHEM, Pa. - A Pennsylvania man has been accused of burglarizing at least three apartments and vandalizing them with spray paint and chocolate pudding - after police say he was found covered in chocolate syrup.

Police say the 24-year-old Bethlehem resident was arrested early Friday after being found with silver spray paint and chocolate on his hands and clothes.

They say that helped tie him to a nearby burglary in which pudding and chocolate syrup were spread across the floor and graffiti was spray-painted on the walls.

The man is accused of the burglaries at off-campus apartments of Lehigh University students.

Bethlehem Det. Sgt. Mark DiLuzio says the man admitted the burglaries but claimed another man broke into the apartments and let him in.