Warrant: Video shows details of sex assault

STAMFORD — A 58-year-old Greenwich man charged with sexually assaulting a woman as she tried to fight him off had his case transferred to the Part A docket, where the district’s most serious matters are heard, after he appeared at the state Superior Court in Stamford Wednesday.

The alleged assault was caught on videotape.

Greenwich Police Det. Ryan Beattie wrote in the arrest warrant for Carlos Jesus Ortiz that police responded to a central Greenwich home around midnight on Christmas Eve 2022 to a 911 call involving a child custody exchange.

When police arrived, Beattie wrote, officers heard shouts coming from the home.

“What are you doing to her?” police heard shouted in Spanish as they arrived on scene, according to the warrant.

Beattie wrote that police entered the home to find a partially clothed woman laying unresponsive on the floor and a man later identified as Ortiz in the home. Ortiz claimed to be the building’s superintendent. The 911 callers told police they had gone to the building to drop the woman’s children off, but when they arrived, they found Ortiz sexually assaulting her, the warrant said.

Ortiz told police he was the victim’s boyfriend, according to the warrant. The woman later denied the claim.

Video surveillance from inside the home allegedly showed Ortiz sexually assaulting the woman, who police said appeared to be heavily intoxicated, as she tried to fight him off.

“The victim was screaming the entire time and tried to kick” the assaulter in the video, Beattie wrote in the warrant.

Beattie wrote the woman showed injuries consistent with what was seen on the video.

Ortiz was arrested at the scene on charges of first-degree sexual assault and second-degree sexual assault, both felonies.

Ortiz is next scheduled to appear on April 11. He is currently being held by the Department of Corrections in lieu of a $500,000 bond.