A police sketch of a man who broke into a home on Kolia Place last month and assaulted the homeowner has not resulted in any tips to investigators, Detective Ed Wallace of the Island County Sheriff’s Office said this week.

“Unfortunately with those sketches, sometimes it doesn’t jog people’s memories,” Wallace said.

A man was sitting with his wife in their kitchen at their home just north of South Whidbey State Park on Dec. 21. They were enjoying the newspaper and morning coffee when he heard a noise in another room and went to investigate. He confronted a prowler who had apparently slipped into the home through a pet door, and the burglar punched the resident in the face and escaped.

The prowler was described as a thin white man, with long reddish hair in a ponytail, who was wearing a khaki-colored shirt, Dockers-style pants and a blue baseball cap at the time of the break-in. He told the homeowner his name was “Jeff.”

Anyone with information on the burglary can contact Detective Mark Plumberg via the ICOM dispatch center at 360-679-9567.