A wife has revealed she met her husband after calling the cops when he staggered into her home drunk and fell asleep on the sofa – now they've been married for a year and have a baby.
Katherine Johnstone came home from a night out, having asked her sister to leave the front door unlocked when she discovered a bloke fast asleep on the living room couch in 2016.
Katherine Johnstone came home from a night out, having asked her sister to leave the front door unlocked when she discovered a bloke fast asleep on the living room couch in 2016.
The horrified 22-year-old who'd "partied too hard" and ended up only rolling home at 8 am crept up to the snoring intruder, trying to work out who he was by using her phone's flashlight.
After establishing he wasn't her sister's friend, the nervous pair fled their family home and called the police, who raced over within minutes.
Cops woke the bemused man up and escorted him from the building, to the sisters' relief.
Katherine, now 29, was asked to check for any missing or broken items, and despite not seeing any obvious signs of damage, the sisters agreed to press charges still to be safe.
The man, identified as Michael Johnstone, was charged with second-degree trespassing, and a mugshot of him was printed in the local newspaper for the whole town to see.
Red-faced Johnstone, now 35, believed he'd crashed on a work colleague's couch after a night out, and once Katherine realized it was an innocent mistake, she dropped the charges.
A sheepish Johnstone later returned to her house with a letter and flowers to apologize to the entire family for the stress he caused, unknowingly meeting his in-laws for the first time.
The pair soon became friends, and after a year of friendship, they started dating.
In 2020, he popped the question before they wedded in May 2022, welcoming their baby Mila in February.
Katherine, from Highland Falls, New York, told The U.S. Sun: "We laugh and can't believe that this is how we met and now have got married and have a family. People bring it up all the time.
"It's a beautiful story and silly because it's so unique. I wouldn't change a thing, and I think it makes our love even stronger.
"My husband is a great man, and I'm very lucky to have him. We're very lucky to have each other."
The elementary school counselor had asked her sister to leave the door unlocked so she could get in after a night out on May 8, 2016, when she unknowingly first met her husband.
Katherine said: "I asked my sister not to lock the door when I went out as I was coming home late, but I partied too hard and ended up coming home at 8 am the next morning.
"I opened my front door, and I found this guy sleeping on our couch with a blanket over him. He was snoring and had taken his shoes off."
She called the police and he was arrested. But it was love at first sight and they continued communicating.
