Police: Man raped sleeping neighbor
He allegedly monitored her via bedroom window
A man who Las Vegas police said peered into his sleeping neighbor’s bedroom window before breaking into her apartment is accused of raping her last month, records show.
Henry Alonzo-santiago, 35, is charged with one count of sexual assault and two counts of sexually motivated burglary. He was booked April 16 into the Clark County Detention Center and is being held without bail, jail records show.
The alleged sexual assault happened about 3 a.m. April 16 inside the woman’s apartment, according to a Metropolitan Police Department arrest report. Her front door was left unlocked hours earlier by a friend who let himself out after the woman had fallen asleep, the report said. He told police that he left the door unlocked because he did not have a key.
Also according to the arrest report: Alonzo-santiago, who lives in the same apartment complex, told detectives that he knew that the woman, whom he met through his wife, had a friend visiting.
The woman told police that when she woke up, Alonzo-santiago was in her bed and on top of her. He left after the woman started yelling. Surveillance footage in the complex showed Alonzo-santiago looking into the woman’s bedroom window before entering the front door. He later told police he had peered in to make sure that the woman’s friend was gone.
He left her apartment a short time later and walked toward his apartment. It would be the first of his two attempts that morning to enter the woman’s bedroom.
In an interview with police, Alonzo-santiago said he left the woman’s apartment the first time because the woman’s young son saw him. He said he returned about an hour later, and this time, he walked straight to the woman’s bedroom where she was sleeping.
Asked if the woman gave him verbal consent, Alonzo-santiago said that she “never spoke a word” and that “it was a bad thing to do.”
The woman had moved into the apartment three days earlier. She told detectives that Alonzo-santiago had never been invited to her apartment and “had no reason to be over there.”
Alonzo-santiago is scheduled to appear in court May 25 for a preliminary hearing, jail records show.
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