Man Found Standing Over Sleeping Couple Claims It Was Drunken Mistake
ROHNERT PARK (CBS SF) -- A man was arrested Monday after he was caught standing over a woman and her boyfriend as they were sleeping in bed in Rohnert Park early Sunday morning, according to the city's Department of Public Safety.
He told investigators it was a drunken mistake as he was looking for his girlfriend's house, but police didn't believe his story.
Police distributed surveillance photos of the man after the incident Sunday. The woman and her boyfriend were asleep at 4:10 a.m. in an apartment on Beverly Drive when the woman awoke to a man standing over them and moving her bedsheets, public safety officials said.
The woman screamed and the man ran from the apartment. Police couldn't find the suspect but found images of him in the apartment complex surveillance footage trying to get into multiple apartments in the building before forcing his way into that one, public safety officials said.
After seeing the media coverage, 25-year-old Arnuifo Pureco Ortega arranged a meeting with police and his attorney, saying he was the person in the apartment and that he'd entered by accident while looking for his girlfriend's apartment, public safety officials said.
He told investigators his girlfriend lives in the same complex and after a night of drinking, he blacked out and was trying to find her. But he remembered little from that night, only that he had woken up in his own bed.
Investigators served a search warrant for his home and found a bag of underwear belonging to another woman who lives in the complex in his closet.
Pureco Ortega couldn't explain how he got the underwear or why he was seen on surveillance video covering his face and pulling his shirt sleeve over his hand while checking apartment doorknobs in an apparent effort to avoid leaving fingerprints, public safety officials said.
He said only that he was drunk and couldn't remember anything, public safety officials said. He was arrested on suspicion of burglary and prowling and was booked into Sonoma County jail.
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