PALMETTO Fla. – Palmetto Police Division says a lady sleeping subsequent to her boyfriend was awoken simply earlier than 5 a.m. on March 2 by a person rubbing her leg.
Mugshot of Roger Ivan Lopez Gomez. Courtesy: Palmetto Police Division.
In accordance with the Palmetto Police Division’s possible trigger affidavit, Roger Ivan Lopez Gomez, 26, broke in by the entrance door earlier than making his method to the second flooring.
That’s the place authorities say he entered the couple’s bed room, who had been amongst two different individuals in the home, and commenced rubbing her leg beneath a blanket.
The backstory:
The affidavit says she started screaming, which wakened her sleeping boyfriend subsequent to her and prompted Lopez Gomez to run downstairs and go away the home.
“He discovered the entrance door of the house open,” Palmetto Police Chief Scott Tyler stated. “He truly went into the home, began wanting by the rooms, noticed one of many girls in the home in mattress, and truly went into the bed room and commenced touching her.”
That is when the lady chased Lopez Gomez down the road earlier than dropping him close to tenth St. W.
“I can’t think about waking as much as someone by my mattress touching me,” Tyler stated.
Detectives say they had been known as, and the home-owner offered detectives with surveillance footage of Lopez Gomez coming into and exiting the house.
Images of Roger Lopez Gomez had been captured by safety cameras on the residence.
Dig deeper:
In accordance with the affidavit, the sufferer posted the footage to a Fb group known as the Parrish Mother and father Community, main the supervisor at Ferraro’s Italian Grille in Parrish to acknowledge Lopez Gomez as a restaurant dishwasher.
“The way in which that my staff right here dealt with the entire state of affairs was impeccable,” stated the proprietor of Ferraro’s Italian Grille. “I used to be extra shocked as a result of when you recognize individuals for thus lengthy, that’s the very last thing I might’ve anticipated from anyone.”
The proprietor says he is grateful that his staff stepped in to assist stop this from occurring to anybody else.
Ferraro’s Italian Grille.
“If that didn’t happen right here, we might not have him in custody proper now and, Lord is aware of, what he might have escalated to,” Tyler stated.
In accordance with the affidavit, detectives decided that Lopez Gomez resembled the particular person within the footage and confronted him at Ferraro’s Italian Grille. After they spoke to Lopez Gomez, he had the identical ‘chin-strip’ beard and Croc-like footwear because the particular person on digital camera.
A photograph of Roger Lopez Gomez was captured by safety cameras on the residence.
Initially, Lopez Gomez denied the incident, telling detectives he was residence when it occurred. The affidavit states that detectives advised him they might run the footage by a facial recognition system, which is when he admitted to it.
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In accordance with the affidavit, authorities introduced him in for questioning, the place he claimed to be inebriated through the time and that he solely ended up on the sufferer’s home as a result of he lived close by.
“He denied realizing them,” Tyler stated. “He actually couldn’t present a solution about why he selected that home, or why he was on the entrance door. We don’t know.”
The proprietor of Ferraro’s Italian Grille stated, “No one desires it to be their worker or desires it to be their member of the family or their good friend.”
What’s subsequent:
He stays within the Manatee County Jail.
The Manatee County Sheriff’s Workplace says that ICE has positioned a detainer maintain on Lopez Gomez. Nevertheless, his present authorized standing is unclear.
The Supply: The knowledge on this story was collected by FOX 13’s Kylie Jones and FOX 13’s Information Workers.
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