Celine Dion's fridge-raiding burglary suspect nabbed drawing bath

Celine Dion appears during the 46th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards on April 3, 2011, in Las Vegas.

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(CBS/AP) MONTREAL - A 36-year-old man has been charged after he allegedly broke into singer Celine Dion's home near Montreal and poured himself a bath, police said Tuesday.

The man also raided the pop superstar's fridge before he was nabbed by police in the Montreal suburb of Laval on Monday afternoon, after the alarm system went off.

Dion and her husband, Rene Angelil, were not at home at the time. Dion and Angelil usually live in Florida but use the Laval residence when they come home to Quebec.

Laval police spokesman Franco Di Genova said the suspect was getting ready to take a nice hot bath when police arrived with a canine unit.

"He opened the water faucets, was pouring a nice warmish bath (and) he even managed to eat some pastry that was in the fridge," Di Genova said.

Di Genova said police worked their way through the house, starting with the basement and finally confronted the man on the main floor.

"The suspect was coming down the big staircase and was asking: 'Hey, guys what are you doing here?'," Di Genova said.

"So the officers replied: 'What are you doing here?' and they proceeded to put him under arrest."

Di Genova said the man had jumped a fence to get on the property and used a garage door opener that he found in an unlocked vehicle to gain access to the luxury residence.

Daniel Bedard, a Laval resident, was arraigned Tuesday on charges including breaking and entering, auto theft and causing property damage.

Di Genova said there was another incident at Dion's mansion in 2009 when another man jumped the fence, but was stopped by the security firm that was keeping an eye on the property before he could enter the home.

[mari1963]

She's Canadian. She speaks French. She is not an American citizen. Why doesn't she live in Canada permanently and record in Canada and be a Canadian recording artist? I wish she'd go back to Canada and stay there. Can we deport her?

[PourpaixPourpaix]

Ridiculous. Canadian citizens are entitled to spend 180 days a year in America, and performers have special visas available to them based on extraordinary talent. Our laws are specifically designed to permit this because these folks are desirable to our society and not fence-hopping criminals. You want to ban a person from America because they speak French. Ridiculous.

[erasmus111]

I've said this before, and I'll say it again. You're one nasty piece of work. I don't think I've ever seen anything you're written that wasn't nasty.

The reason she isn't living in Canada, at this point in time, is because she's got a 3 year contract in Vegas.

[credibility2]

So much for this guy being the "alleged"...what an inane label to put on someone caught in the act...so idiotic and PC...

[signseeker1717]

Yes, it may seem obvious, and it may be "inane", but it's not "PC"; that's the LEGAL process for both US and Canadian law. Canadian law has its own version of Miranda, and "innocent until proven guilty".

[Bojax39]

"The suspect was coming down the big staircase and was asking: 'Hey, guys what are you doing here?',"

Arresting YOU, dummy. What did you think?