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A man suspected of breaking into and staying overnight in an unoccupied room at the Quality Inn in Chesterton was tracked to and arrested at a Comfort Inn in Porter Tuesday, police said.

Abdullah Zegar, 47, of Homer Glen, Illinois, is charged with a Level 4 felony of burglary of a dwelling and a misdemeanor theft charge.

During the course of their investigation, Chesterton Police detectives found that Zegar had been arrested last month for a similar incident involving a hotel room in Traverse City, Michigan.

Suspicions were initially raised at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday when a Quality Inn employee found that a room was locked from the inside where no one was registered.

When the room’s window was checked from the outside, an employee “noticed moveme

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