A Westport man faces multiple felony charges for allegedly breaking into a neighbor’s camper and destroying property last week.

On Wednesday morning, Nov. 13, police were dispatched to Tickle Road to investigate a resident’s breaking and entering complaint. When they arrived, they found a camper with damage to the door, and located tools nearby which officers suspect were used in gaining access to it.

Officers checked in the camper but found nobody, though they did find empty bottles of alcohol that the owner said did not belong to him. However, the man said he had had problems in the past with his neighbor, Brendan Hoey.

Officers went to a nearby home owned by Hoey’s parents. His mother told officers that she believed her son was involved in the break-in, and asked him to speak to police. Subsequently, police read him his rights and police said headmitted breaking into the camper the previous night. That night, he said, he’d left his parents’ home and broke into their garage, where he went to sleep before deciding to break into the camper as the temperature dropped.

Upon searching his parents’ garage, police found a motorized scooter that officers said had been stolen from the camper owner’s property. Police said Hoey told them that he didn’t know how the scooter got into the garage, and blamed his lapse in memory on being intoxicated.

Police charged Hoey, 22, of 259C Tickle Road, with two felony counts of breaking and entering into a building at night, felony larceny over $1,200, and felony destruction of property over $1,200.