JACKSON TWP. — A Nashville man has been charged with residential entry and possession of drug paraphernalia after a Lick Creek Road woman saw him in her home while she was watching security camera footage and called police.

When officers arrived at the home in the 7300 block of Lick Creek Sept. 25, they found no one inside. The resident’s father told police that he had come over when his daughter called him. He thought he heard someone upstairs, so he went outside, but he never saw anyone leave.

Police found fresh footprints in the dirt behind the barn. Several officers watched the security video and identified the person it as Tallon G. Bowman, 25 of Old State Road 46. He had a distinct diamond tattoo on his right hand, the report said.

The resident told police that it was possible Bowman knew she was in the process of moving to a new house because he has ties to the family.

The only items she noticed missing were a bottle of wine and a bottle of rum, the police report said.

Police received a tip on Sept. 27 that Bowman was hanging out at a house on Jackson Branch Road. At about 9:45 p.m., Brown County Detective Brian Shrader, Sgt. Bill Southerland and deputy Joe Jackson went to the home and met Bowman, who was wearing the clothing he had on in the video, the police report said.

Bowman admitted to smoking marijuana and showed officers a glass pipe on the cabinet and a grinder under a bed, the report said. Police seized his cellphone and wallet and placed him under arrest.

Bowman told police that he was in the Lick Creek Road home because he knew the resident had moved and he wanted to “squat” there for the night. He said he left because he saw the security camera.

He then changed his statement by saying that he heard the resident’s father come over and he hid upstairs, and when he heard the other man go out the back, he ran out the front of the house into the woods and walked all the way back to Bloomington.

The police report said Bowman admitted to using heroin virtually every day, spending $50 a day. Shrader wrote that Bowman has no job to get money to support his habit.

He was charged Sept. 28 — on his 25th birthday — with residential entry, a Level 6 felony, and possession of paraphernalia, a Class C misdemeanor.