A Havana man awoke just before 8 a.m. Saturday to find an intoxicated stranger with a gun in his pocket eating a candy bar taken from the freezer.

A Havana man awoke just before 8 a.m. Saturday to find an intoxicated stranger with a gun in his pocket eating a candy bar taken from the freezer.

William J. Broerman, 35, of Loda, has been charged with burglary, two counts of possession of a stolen firearm and one count of possession of a stolen vehicle following an incident that reads more like the plot to an amnesia mystery movie than the description of one man’s night at the tavern, which this apparently was.

According to court records, when Havana police showed up to the house where Broerman and the homeowner had a run-in, Broerman described to them how he had been drinking in a bar in Paxton, which is about two and a half hours away from Havana, the night before. Then, he “found himself driving this red Chevrolet pick-up for about four hours and became lost and stopped here.”

He had a gun, but he had no idea where or how he got the truck and the gun. They did not belong to him.

Apparently Broerman must have fallen asleep, because he next told police that he woke up and went up to the door of the house, pushed in the screen so he could unlock the door and entered the house. He found candy bars in the freezer and ate them simply because “he was hungry.”

It was around this point that Broerman’s voice must have wakened the house’s resident, who said when he called down to see who was in his house, Broerman told him to “come downstairs because he had a gun.”

The Havana man grabbed his own gun from his bedside and confronted Broerman, court records said, and convinced him to hand over his gun — which was a .45-caliber handgun. Then the two went outside to await the arrival of police.

When officials reached the owner of the truck in Paxton, the man said he was unaware of the theft but added he did not give anybody permission to take his truck. He also said there were two guns in the truck: one .45-caliber handgun and one 12-gauge shotgun.

Broerman himself probably described the situation best in Mason County criminal court Thursday, when addressing Eighth Circuit Court Judge Alan D. Tucker.

“It’s a very unusual situation, Your Honor,” Broerman said.

His preliminary hearing has been set for 11 a.m. Sept. 22.