Seattle police arrested a man at his South Seattle home last week after police stumbled upon several hundred pot plants while investigating a possible burglary at the man's house.

A police report says a witness called police around 10:45pm on July 16th and said three men had just walked out of a neighbor's yard on 39th Ave S and S Sulivan St carrying something, before they hopped in a black Nissan Maxima and sped off.

Police arrived at the home and found several broken windows in the back of the house, right next to a pot plant.

When police tried to enter the home, a "large dog" began barking and "baring its teeth" at officers, and  a man stumbled out of a back room.

The man told police he'd been sleeping, and wasn't aware his home had been burglarized.

Police searched the man's home and found grow lamps, an air filtering system, 179 juvenile marijuana plants, and 150 starter plants in three separate rooms.

Officers called in detectives from the narcotics unit, as well as Seattle City Light officials, who found that "two flattened pieces of copper pipes" had been used to modify and bypass the home's electric meter.

Police arrested the man at the home and booked him into the King County Jail for drug possession.