Moss Man

On Thursday, police in Hillsboro, Oregon got a call that there might be a break-in at the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals . . . a museum that has several valuable gems, fossils and meteorites inside.

When they searched the premises, there was no one inside . . . but one of the police dogs was OBSESSED with a little grassy patch about a half a mile from the museum.

And when the dog BIT the grass and it YELLED, the non-K9 police realized what was going on.

36-year-old Gregory Liascos of Portland, Oregon was the guy who'd tried to break in . . . and he was wearing a full-on MOSS MAN suit as his disguise.

The suit is forest green and shaggy, the kind that military snipers use to blend in with the vegetation.

Gregory was arrested for burglary and criminal mischief.