Vancouver police pulled a ladder out from under a man who had spent more than an hour crawling through the ceiling of a Macy’s at Vancouver Mall in Washington, sending him tumbling onto a mattress they had placed underneath.Employees called police around 4 p.m. on Sept. 30 after spotting someone moving on top of the ceiling tiles, breaking them and damaging lights and wiring.Officers and firefighters set up a ladder and spent roughly an hour trying to talk the man down.According to court records, the suspect, identified as 21-year-old Gabriel Hideo, growled and made incoherent noises while moving around in the ceiling.When he stepped onto the ladder and then tried to climb back into the ceiling, officers pulled the ladder away.WATCH:A suspected burglar at a Macy’s store in Vancouver fell through the ceiling before he was arrested by police.Employees reported someone crawling above them, damaging tiles and lights. https://t.co/5se4U2zjTE— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) October 9, 2026Hideo fell onto the mattress, got up, and attempted to flee, but officers caught him.“They had a conveniently located mattress for us to be able to pull over there, and so in case he fell, because there was definitely an opportunity, with not a lot of footing up there, for him to fall out,” Vancouver Police Department public information officer Kim Kapp told KIRO Newsradio.“And he eventually came down the ladder a few rungs, and we were able to pull the ladder out. He fell onto the mattress, and we were able to get him into custody,” Kapp said.“We have to be creative sometimes, but at the end of the day, everybody went home safely,” Kapp added.Police evacuated the mall’s second floor during the standoff.When he was finally apprehended, police found a large fixed-blade knife on him.The creepy ceiling lurker was charged with first-degree burglary and first-degree malicious mischief. He was held on an existing felony warrant.The post MUST WATCH: Cops Yank Ladder Out from Under Ceiling-Crawling Suspect After Hour-Long Standoff at Washington Macy’s appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.