SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. — A 44-year-old man was arrested Saturday after deputies said he broke a glass door with a flowerpot to enter a closed bank in Spokane Valley.

Deputies responded around 11:40 a.m. Oct. 4 to a burglary in progress at a bank in the 500 block of North Mullan Road, according to the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.

When deputies arrived, they found the bank’s front glass door shattered, with a broken flowerpot and dirt scattered in the doorway. Bank security confirmed through video surveillance that a man was inside the building without permission.

Deputies surrounded the bank and used a loudspeaker to order the suspect to surrender, warning that a K9 might be deployed if he did not comply. After several minutes, the suspect — identified as Richard N. Brown, 44 — exited

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