A Philadelphia man has been charged after he jumped out of an ambulance in Lehighton.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by patrolman Joel Gulla of the Lehighton Borough Police Department in the case against Michael Hutcheon:

At 2:11 p.m. last Wednesday, Lehighton police were dispatched to the area of Ninth and Mahoning streets for a mental patient who jumped from an ambulance.

Police were advised that a man wearing blue hospital scrubs had just broken into a home in the 100 block of South Eighth Street.

Police spoke with the homeowner, who said the man kicked in his back door and came into his residence.

The homeowner said the man ran from the residence before police arrived.

The man, who identified himself as Hutcheon, 47, was located and taken into custody in front of another home on South Eighth Street without further incident.

The homeowner identified Hutcheon as the man who kicked in his door and entered his residence without permission.

Police said Hutcheon attempted to enter another home on South Eighth Street through a basement window he forced open and entered another home through a basement Bilco door before the homeowner encountered him in the second-floor hallway.

Hutcheon was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital, Carbon Campus, where he was cleared medically and returned to borough police.

He admitted to breaking into the home because he believed someone was after him and he was looking for help.

Hutcheon faces charges of burglary and criminal trespass.

He is incarcerated in the Carbon County Correctional Facility in lieu of $150,000 monetary bail, and scheduled to have a preliminary hearing Sept. 17 before District Judge Eric M. Schrantz of Jim Thorpe.