MIDDLESEX TWP — A suspected burglar, spotted by neighbors coming out of the front door of a mobile home Sunday morning, has been charged with four break-ins at the same trailer park, police said.

The alleged crook, 24-year-old Chad J. Dolan, didn’t have to go far to find his targets, Middlesex Township police said. He too lives at the Sandy Hill Estates trailer park near Route 228 East.

Dolan, who investigators said confessed to the crime spree, is being held in the Butler County Prison on $25,000 bail.

Patrolman Randy Davison arrested Dolan a short time after police were called about 10:05 a.m. Sunday to investigate the latest in a string of burglaries at Sandy Hill Estates.

Two neighbors told authorities that they saw a suspicious young man knock on the door at a nearby home and then try to pry open the door before going behind the trailer.

Five minutes later, police said, the neighbors saw the man come out the front door.

Davison got there and found the back door of the trailer had been forced open.

While investigating he happened to notice the suspect.

“I seen him walking within the trailer park,” Davison said. “I jumped into my car, drove through some yards and arrested him.”

The arrest came just as Dolan was planning to break into another trailer, police said,

A search turned up evidence that Davison had nabbed the right man.

“In his pocket,” the officer said, “he had a screwdriver, gloves and a bottle of medication.”

Police said the prescription medicine, believed to be sleeping pills, had been stolen from the home that Dolan had allegedly burglarized moments earlier.

Davison took the suspect to the police station but not before the two neighbors who had reported the break-in identified Dolan as the suspected burglar.

The defendant immediately admitted to both the burglary and attempted burglary Sunday, Davison said.

And before long, he admitted to three other break-ins that had occurred within the past week at the trailer park .

“He was quite forthright,” Davison said of Dolan. “He confessed to stealing jewelry and medication.”

Police suspect he sold the stolen jewelry at a gold store in Natrona Heights, Allegheny County.

“He bought drugs with the money he got,” Davison said.

Dolan, who is unemployed, lives with his father at Sandy Hill Estates.

He is charged with four counts each of burglary, trespass, theft and receiving stolen property, and one count each of attempted burglary and possessing instruments of crime.