Greensburg police said security video of a suspected burglar wearing a designer sweatshirt and reports of a man fleeing the scene in a car with out-of-state license plates led officers to a suspect in a break-in early Saturday.

Carlton B. Taylor, 23, was arrested shortly after the 4 a.m. break-in at an apartment along Alwine Avenue.

Patrolman Henry Fontana said the female victim awoke to “a man standing over top of her in an upstairs bedroom.”

Fontana said, when the woman screamed, the unknown intruder ran down a stairway, through a rear door in the kitchen area to a car parked outside. Police reported the woman’s screams apparently scared off the man before he took anything.

That intruder later was identified as Taylor, who, police say, admitted entering the home.

According to Fontana, a video surveillance camera captured an image shortly before the break-in of a man “wearing a hooded sweatshirt with a Calvin Klein insigna across the front,” who also wore a blue jean jacket. The video, Fontana said, was of a man unsuccessfully attempting to force open a front door to the apartment.

Other witnesses who were awakened by the victim’s screams told police they saw a man flee in a car bearing an out-of-state license plate.

Fontana alleges in court papers evidence at the scene showed the intruder entered the apartment by breaking out a bathroom window before going into the woman’s bedroom.

During the investigation, police reported locating a 2010 gray Lexus with Maryland license plates recently parked at a residence on Perry Avenue, blocks away. Fontana said the homeowner allowed investigators inside.

“I observed (Taylor) wearing a hooded sweatshirt with a Calvin Klein insigna,” Fontana wrote in court papers.

Police discovered a jean jacket lying on the front passenger seat of the gray Lexus. Fontana said Taylor smelled of alcoholic beverage when he was questioned by police.

“Taylor admitted to entering the home,” Fontana said.

Taylor was arraigned on charges of criminal trespass, criminal mischief, loitering and prowling and public drunkenness. He was ordered to the county jail after failing to post $25,000 bond.

Taylor did not have an attorney listed in court documents.

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