A 22-year-old New Hyde Park man was caught in the act of committing a burglary at a school in his hometown shortly after midnight on Monday, Nassau police said.

Benjamin Wiener

Officers responded with canine units to the Christian Education Building on South 9th Street for the report of a burglary in progress.  Thunder, a police dog, searched the building and found Benjamin Wiener in a second-floor classroom, police said.

After a brief struggle, he was arrested and treated for a dog bite to his leg at an area hospital.

Wiener was charged with burglary and was arraigned at First District Court in Hempstead on Monday.