NATCHEZ — Tips from residents helped Natchez Police Chief Danny White nab a burglar Thursday police believe is responsible for three burglaries in the past two days.

Detective Jerry Ford said the police department received a call at approximately 8:30 a.m. from an Old Browns Lane resident who had found a man inside her house. When police arrived in the area, the man had fled the house on foot.

Shortly before 11 a.m., police received a call from a resident in the 300 block of Old Washington Road about a man fitting the description of the burglar.

The resident reported the burglar had knocked on his door, Ford said, and asked for the bag.

“(The resident) told him to hold on that he would go get a bag, but called police and gave a description (of the suspect),” Ford said.

Ford said police believe the burglar intended to rob the man or  burglarize the house.

White was in the area, Ford said, and caught Jonquil Jackson, 18, 10 E. Fairview Farm Road, on Mascagni Avenue.

White said he had been out to the previous calls to check out the burglaries. He heard the call come in from the Old Washington Road resident and decided to go instead to Mascagni Avenue to see if the suspect had fled there.

“Sure enough, as I was waiting in my car, he came out of the bushes,” he said. “I went up to him and asked him his name, and he told me. By that time, all my guys had swooped in.

“I’m really glad we got him.”

Police were able to recover a Playstation 4 gaming console that was taken from one of three residences Jackson reportedly burglarized.

The residences were on Old Browns Lane, Cemetery Road and in the 300 block of Clifton Avenue.

The Clifton Avenue victim reported on Tuesday a window to her house had been forced open and $80 in coins and $10 cash was stolen. The microwave had also been opened, and a bottle of Seagram’s gin in the icebox had been opened and half the liquor was missing.

Jackson was in custody at the Natchez Police Department Thursday afternoon, and Ford expected burglary charges to be filed Thursday evening.