Police in the nation's capital are looking for a bed jumper - he's said to be breaking into women's apartments, jumping into bed with them, and then fleeing when they awake.
According to APBNews.com, a man has walked into unlocked apartments at least twice in the last six months in a neighborhood near the Capitol, crawling into bed with his victims.
The first incident occurred June 14, when a woman awoke at 3 a.m. to find a man in her bed. Police say he put his hand on her mouth, she screamed, and he jumped and ran. The second occurred Oct. 22, when a woman was startled out of sleep by a man who matched the first incident's suspect description. "This time," says Metro police sergeant Kervin Johnson, "he was holding her down."
The victims didn't seem to know the intruder, and nothing was taken from either apartment. Police, in fact, are stuck for finding a possible motive in these incidents.
The suspect is said to be a white man in his early-to-mid 30s, about 6 feet tall, 150 pounds, with olive skin. Police have distributed flyers with the description and an illustration through the Capitol Hill area. Sexual assault experts tell APBNews the intruder is a near-classic sex offender who might use such small beginning to rise toward more dangerous sex crimes.
