Chilling video captured a man who crept around an Iowa woman’s apartment — where he stared at a woman as she slept, gathered her shoes, and put on a pair of socks before leaving.
The creepy intruder broke into the woman’s home in Ankeny on April 1 and was apparently in no hurry to leave, Law&Crime reported.
A security camera caught his strange meanderings, including when he hovered over the woman as she slept on the couch. At one point, he collected all her shoes and set them next to her.
During his bizarre visit, the man also took a drink and used the bathroom, KCCI reported. He then grabbed a pair of socks, put them on and walked out.
The suspect, identified as 23-year-old Dan Abimana, was charged with trespassing, police Sgt. Corey Schneden told The Post, explaining that no burglary charges were lodged because the element of intent to commit a crime was not present.
“Alcohol was involved,” he said.
The woman called the episode “creepy,” telling Law&Crime she probably didn’t hear the man enter because she sleeps with the TV on and the door was apparently unlocked.
“Someone had come home earlier in the night after work and just absentmindedly forgot to lock the door,” the woman told the outlet, which didn’t name her.
“He was super quiet. I think the combination of the two is how I just kept sleeping,” she said, adding that the intruder had “even been down to the kids’ room.”
At one point, the man bumped his knee and woke her up. The startled woman said she asked the stranger who he was.
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“He said, ‘I’m the guy who dropped you off last night,’” she said. “At that point, I knew he wasn’t a friend of the kids or anything.”
She then “started screaming for my son” as the man grabbed the socks and headed out.
The woman called the police, who took fingerprints and conducted a search for the suspect.
“My assumption was that he was on drugs or something. I didn’t smell alcohol on him when he was standing right in front of me and I was awake,” she told Law&Crime.
Schneden said he didn’t think the suspect wanted to harm anyone – and even suggested that the man had entered the wrong apartment.
“He mentioned that there was some alcohol that was involved, but that was really it,” the sergeant said. “It sounded like he didn’t have any ill intentions towards anyone. I don’t know if there was confusion because it was a large apartment complex and he was over visiting someone and he got mixed up.”
The woman said she wanted the suspect to be charged with burglary.
“I was very upset, I was not happy at all,” she said. “I felt at the least it should have been either burglary or assault. I was in fear for my life when I woke up.”
She said she has trouble sleeping as a result of the incident.
“I constantly wake up in the night and look around to see if anyone’s in my room. If I go around the corner coming in, I look to see if anyone’s there. It’s really affected me,” she told the outlet.
