A Chilean national was arrested in Texas after a burglary, during which he was able to interfere with arresting officers’ communications by using a radio jamming device.

Ignacio Castillo Contreras, 22, was charged with residential burglary and interfering with a radio frequency licensed to a government entity in connection with the incident on Feb. 8, according to West University Place Police.

During his probable cause hearing, Contreras said he is not a U.S. citizen and has only been in Houston for a couple of months, Fox 26 reported. He said he was living in a hotel.

Officers within the vicinity of the device were unable to communicate through police-issued hand-held radio devices. (iStock)

“If you imagine an ordinary criminal committing a crime with a radio frequency jamming device, now add to that someone with real bad intent who wants to harm a lot of people like a terrorist, a mass murderer, and it gets scary quick,” Ogg said.