A teenager leapt out of the window of a Mosgiel retirement unit after being disturbed by the startled resident.
Police are now searching for the teenager after the incident at Chatsford Retirement Village on Wednesday afternoon, Sergeant Matt Lee, of Dunedin, said.
Once confronted, the teenager escaped through the window he had used to enter the unit.
Shortly after, he was spotted trying the doorknob of another home in the village.
He then bolted towards a nearby park.
Once there, he began verbally threatening a member of the public before fleeing.
• Later, at 8.40pm, police were called to Forbury Rd after reports of an unknown teenager walking in and out of residents’ yards.
When police arrived, they found a 17-year-old in a garden with a bag of allegedly stolen goods.
He was arrested and charged with being unlawfully in an enclosed yard, Sgt Lee said.
