Lotto tickets, prescription medicine and four courier packets were stolen from a Dunedin home on Wednesday.
Sergeant Trevor Thomson, of Dunedin, said the householder returned home to find a broken glass pane in his house in David St in Caversham.
On entering the house he saw a man running down the hall to the back door, about 2.30pm.
A police dog and handler attended but failed to find the offender, he said.
● The front door of the Golden Fleece Hotel and Motel in Waikouaiti was "kicked in" about 4am on Wednesday and three bottles of wine stolen.
