DeKALB – A Northern Illinois University student returned to her dorm room after going to the bathroom to find Branden J. Leach leaving it with her medication and other items, authorities said.

About noon Sunday, she confronted Leach, who told her he had wanted to ask her a question, court records show.

She didn’t know him outside of riding in the elevator at Stevenson Towers North with him just minutes before, but she recognized her prescription medication, court records show.

Leach offered her money not to call police.

Other students came out of their rooms, and one recognized an Xbox and four Xbox games Leach was holding as items that belonged to another resident of the dormitory floor, court records show.

While waiting for police, Leach tossed out another bottle of prescription pills that police later identified as tramadol, an opiate painkiller.

Leach, 19, of the first block of Kempton Drive in Romeoville, was charged with residential burglary and unlawful possession of a controlled substance.

If convicted of the more serious charge, residential burglary, he could be sentenced to between four and 15 years in prison.

Leach is not a NIU student, but had been signed in as a guest of someone who lived on another floor of Stevenson Towers North, court records show.

Leach remained in DeKalb County Jail on Monday, unable to post 10 percent of his $25,000 bail.

He is next due in court March 2.