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According to a report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office, a Gaylesville, Alabama man was arrested after he entered a Lyerly woman’s home at night, without permission.  According to the sheriff’s office, the complainant called 911 after the man entered her home through the front door while she was sleeping.  The woman’s dogs woke her up and she saw the man, who asked her if Cody Aycock was there.  The woman told the intruder that he was not.  The suspect left and was found a short time later by Cherokee County, Alabama sheriff’s deputies near the state line.  Chattooga deputies were able to apprehend the man and arrest him.  Fifty-two-year-old Nathan Thomas Deaton was charged with criminal trespass and booked into the Chattooga County Jail.