(Michigan City, IN) - Police say a La Porte man was pushed out the door by a person whose home he was burglarizing.

Robert Wisiniewski, Jr., 30, was soon taken into custody.  According to Michigan City Police, he climbed through a kitchen window to get inside the home in the 2400 block of Oak St. about midnight Saturday. Police said the victim heard then saw the man near the kitchen and shoved him out the back door. Officers giving chase found the man on the front porch of a home in the 300 block of Beverly Court.

Police say he matched the description of the suspect. A laptop computer taken from the residence was quickly recovered by following footprints in the snow to a garbage can. A power cord to the laptop was dangling from the closed lid on the can, police said.