It was an odd smell coming from his children?s bedroom in the middle of the night that told a Dundalk father that something was wrong.

When the dad entered the bedroom of his 6-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son on Monday at 2:30 a.m., he found a strange man ? who apparently had drugged the children ? trying to hide in a wardrobe, police said.

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