A 49-year-old Point Fortin woman caught a man red-handed ransacking her bedroom early Friday.
Although she cried out for help, the man managed to flee.
He remained on the run on Saturday.
A police report said the victim, of Fanny Village secured her home by locking all doors and windows and went to bed shortly after 10 pm on Thursday.
Around 3 am she was awoken by some noise and saw the man ransacking her bedroom.
He was wearing a blue T-shirt covering his head, a dark coloured T-shirt, and blue three-quarter jeans.
She raised the alarm and the man escaped by running to an area overgrown with bushes.
On checking, she found three cellphones, together valued at $5,199, missing.
The police noticed that the man entered the house by prying open a door, the same door he used to get out.
PC Maharaj is leading investigations.
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