A pair of burglars escaped the law Wednesday evening while the homeowner is currently sitting in jail.

A neighbour to the Cook Street resident called police at 9:30 p.m. to report he and his dog had corralled a pair of males who he'd caught breaking into the home next door.

However, the two males had eluded their captor's grasp by the time Whitehorse RCMP officers arrived.

But officers who checked the burgled home for any other break-and-enter artists still hiding found more than thieves they found four guns and a marijuana grow operation in the basement.

The officers left the residence, but soon returned with a search warrant in hand, Sgt. John Sutherland, a Whitehorse RCMP spokesman, told reporters this morning.

Police seized 28 marijuana plants and the various equipment to grow them, along with two rifles, two shotguns including a .410 shotgun stolen from a Marsh Lake home in 2001 and a high-end mountain bike taken June 9 from a Takhini Hot Springs Road residence.

The bike's owner has since identified the mountain bike.

Though the Cook Street homeowner wasn't at the residence when police first arrived, he's since been arrested on at least five Criminal Code and Controlled Drugs and Substances Act charges.

A 52-year-old man was scheduled to make his first appearance in court earlier this afternoon on charges of possession of a stolen bicycle, careless storage of a firearm, unauthorized possession of a firearm, possession of a stolen firearm and production of marijuana.

That man wasn't the only one to be busted for drugs by local police.

Earlier in the day, at about 5:30 p.m., Whitehorse RCMP officers went knocking on a Kopper King trailer court home's door with an arrest warrant in hand for the resident.

They couldn't help but notice the three marijuana plants sitting on a windowsill.

Police obtained a search warrant and found, along with the illegal produce on the windowsill, 32 grams of marijuana, 1.5 grams of cocaine, more than seven grams of magic mushrooms and various paraphernalia both for the use and packaging of drugs.

Police are looking into whether the homeowner will be charged.

Officers had been to the Kopper King trailer court earlier in the day to investigate a break-in to another home. A sliding window had been opened in the process of stealing a Samsung DVD player.

The break-in occurred between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Wednesday.

In Riverdale, a Teslin Road homeowner is missing a significant amount of jewelry she inherited from her grandmother.

Entry was forced to the home, which was being renovated at the time. The residents were staying with family members when the burglary happened between 11 p.m. Tuesday and 8 a.m. Wednesday.

A digital video camera and a digital still camera, along with the jewelry were taken from a bedroom. Among the missing heirlooms is the wedding ring of the homeowner's grandmother, some necklaces and rings.

The owner is still making an inventory of the stolen items as the 'house was just tossed,' police said. The thieves had rifled and thrown about the house's contents in their search for stealables.

Also robbed was a pickup owner who left his truck unlocked while parked in his Redwood Street driveway in Porter Creek. A pair of small, compact binoculars and a black cell phone were taken between 11 p.m. Tuesday and 10 a.m. Wednesday.

It's not clear if a pair of three-year-old, twin girls were perfecting their escape-artist skills after the pair was reported missing from a Porter Creek day home shortly before 4 p.m. Wednesday. The duo wasn't anywhere to be found in the home, but the fence's gate was still secure, Sutherland said.

However, the two were soon found playing in a nearby park.

A Hillcrest woman arrived home Monday to discover that change scattered through her residence had been filched.

The front door to her Kluane Crescent home had been forced open. Though it appears the thief or thieves went through her belongings, the loose change is the only thing she noted that was gone.

The break-in occurred while she was away during the day, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

As well, the local RCMP no longer need the public's assistance to locate a Whitehorse man reported missing earlier this week.