Cops: Home burglar claimed to be Jack Bauer from "24"

SEATTLE - A man who allegedly broke into a Seattle couple's apartment earlier this month believed he was Jack Bauer from the Fox television show "24" when he broke in, reports CBS affiliate KIRO.

Bauer is a fictional law officer fighting terrorism, played by Keifer Sutherland.

Derek Doerschel and his fiancee Danielle Green came home February 9 to find their door ajar.

Doerschel told KIRO he found screens off their windows, kitty litter in the sink, clothes in the bathtub, food strewn all over the kitchen, a frozen pie in the oven, and a frozen crab in the closet.

Doerschel's credit cards had been removed from his wallet and were stuffed in a chocolate muffin and the peephole in their front door had somehow been removed and was missing.

Doerschel said his fiancee was shaken up.

"She was scared," he said. "She was getting a little emotional."

Doerschel called police and spotted a man, later identified as 30-year-old David Stolte, crouched in an alley beside the apartment with his hands on his head, reports the station.

When police arrived, they arrested Stolte as he tried to jump the railing on the fourth floor of the same building, where he often stays with his mother.

Police said he implied he'd taken the drug LSD. He was arrested and charged with residential burglary, according to the station.

Court documents obtained by KIRO show Stolte has no known criminal convictions but that police contacted him several times over the past few years for running around naked, climbing on roofs naked, and even smashing a bus window in Oregon and lying in the middle of the road attempting to get run over.

"It's progressively getting worse," Stolte's mother, Ria Quinton said, according to the station.

She said she was "shocked and horrified" by the description of her son's behavior the day of the burglary.

She said she has tried to get her son help and that he's on the waiting list for a therapist. She also said he is on medication for bipolar disorder.

"I know he would never hurt anyone else," Quinton said. "He is capable of damaging property."

Quinton said she hopes a judge will do what she can't: order that he spend time in a psychiatric hospital.