One person was arrested after police responded early Friday morning to a burglary at the Beverly Hills house of singer-songwriter and producer Lionel Richie.

Beverly Hills police received a 911 call just after midnight from the residence of the 76-year-old music legend about someone on the property, the agency told NBC Los Angeles' NBC Investigates team . The award-winning hitmaker who achieved success with the Commodores, a top R&B group of the 1970s, and his solo career was home at the time.

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Officers responded and searched the neighborhood, finding a man a few blocks away who was taken into custody near Wilshire Boulevard and Beverly Glen. Michael John Bond, 38, was arrested on suspicion of residential burglary.

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