Cincinnati Police Detective Pat Galligan tosses a shoe, thought to belong to the man who burglarized a building downtown. (Craig Ruttle photos) | ZOOM |

Firefighters remove the suspect in a burglary of a building near Plum Street and McFarland. | ZOOM |

To find their suspect, police followed the moans.

A man they say dove through a window in a downtown Cincinnati apartment Thursday afternoon to steal laptops and other items ended up in University Hospital with a possible broken hip.

Escaping from the Plum Street building, the man fell into a 10-foot-deep divide between the building and a parking lot.

Officers found him because someone called 911 to report they heard moaning.

Police said the suspect had been investigated a year ago for a string of break-ins and was sentenced to prison in September 2002.