After a nearly 3-hour search yesterday, Hastings police apprehended a 24-year-old who they say broke into a Clunie Avenue home. 

At 10:45 a.m. a resident of Clunie Avenue called police to say she had seen a man attempting to break into a neighbor’s house with a baseball bat.

When police arrived, the suspect fled down the dead-end street into the woods. Police chased him across Farragut Parkway but lost him in the area of Ronnie Circle.

Almost three hours later, a homeowner there told police he thought he had seen the suspect in his driveway. The garage was searched and a man was found at 1:24 p.m.

Officers discovered Phillip Shand, 24, of Morningside Place in Yonkers, attempting to change his clothes in a loft area above the garage, police said.

“He was trying to change into a pair of green hospital scrubs and a purple woman’s dress shirt,” said Hastings police Lieut. David Dosin.

Shand was charged with second and third degree burglary, felonies; felony criminal mischief; petty larceny and resisting arrest, misdemeanors; and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation.

Police do not believe anything was taken from the Clunie Avenue home but the incident is still under investigation, Dosin said.

Hastings police were backed up by members of the Dobbs Ferry, Yonkers and Westchester County police departments.

"A great job all around, especially on the part of the alert residents," Dosin said.