On the first day of 2018, a 23-year-old Vallejo man may have earned crime of the year honors.

Vallejo police responded at about 8:40 a.m. of a burglary in progress at the Pacifica Pizza on Lincoln Road East. Arriving officers discovered the Vallejo resident hiding among pizza boxes near the oven.

The suspect, who had been drinking earlier in the morning, told police he broke into the business because he was cold and tired, Vallejo Police Department Lt. Kent Tribble told the Times-Herald Monday. “He decided to warm up near the oven, which had accidentally been left on” Tribble added.

The business owner arrived at the store Monday morning to turn the oven off when the man was discovered. Tribble said the man wasn’t homeless.

Tribble said the man was booked into the Solano County jail.

Contact John Glidden at (707) 553-6832.