A Utah man stopped an intruder who had broken into his home Friday and tried to kidnap his young daughter. While the 5-year-old girl wasn't harmed, the incident is raising concerns because of its similarities to the case of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart who was taken in 2002 from her bedroom in Salt Lake City. Smart was held for nine months before she was found.

In this case, the suspect entered the suburban home in Sandy through an unlocked door around 4:30 a.m., Police Sgt. Dean Carriger said. Sandy is a middle-class area south of Salt Lake City.

The intruder was in the family basement searching through things for valuables when he found the girl sleeping in her bedroom. Carriger then said the man took the girl and carried her upstairs, making noise that woke her parents.

When the father went to the front door, he saw the suspect running with his daughter in his arms across their front lawn. The father confronted the man, asking what he was doing and yelling to let his daughter go. The suspect gave the girl back to her father and ran away.

The father called 911 and police officers launched an immediate search in the area with the help of police dogs. The suspect tried to hide by ducking into a second home two blocks away through a doggy door. The family dogs began barking, and the residents hailed the police already in the area to come and get the man.

Carriger said the 48-year-old man was captured outside the second home when a police dog bit him in the upper shoulder to subdue him. The family told the authorities they did not know the suspect, and police have identified him as Troy Morley of Roy, Utah.

Morley was arrested and booked on child kidnapping, burglary, resisting arrest and trespassing charges.