KENNEWICK, Wash. - Police arrested a man in the early hours on Sunday for burglary, trespassing, and obstructing a public servant after running and hiding from officers in a dumpster.

Around 4:24 a.m., police responded to an alarm at a metal scrap yard where they found the man, who then ran away through downtown, the Kennewick Police Department shared on social media.

At one point, the man dropped a backpack he was carrying full of copper piping.

Officers found him hiding in a nearby dumpster near West Kennewick Avenue and North Auburn Street, where they arrested him.

He was booked into jail "without issue," the police department said.

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