Police swooped on Taylor Swift's Tennessee home on Friday morning to arrest an overzealous fan on suspicion of trespassing.

Security guards alerted authorities after Jacob Kulke, 24, allegedly scaled a fence at the singer's property in Nashville in the early hours of Friday.

Police officers arrested Kulke, who allegedly told them he had travelled from Wisconsin to celebrate Swift's 23rd birthday on Thursday, according to TMZ.com.

Kulke was booked on suspicion of trespassing and held on $10,000 bond.

Swift was not home at the time of the incident. She spent her birthday in Britain with her rumored boyfriend, One Direction star Harry Styles.

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