Cops: Sex Offender Caught Prowling On Ladder
03/09/2010 --
A registered sex offender was arrested late Monday night on suspicion of using a ladder to try to break into an Orlando apartment where two women live.
Justin Patrick Santuci, 31, faces charges of loitering or prowling and burglary of an occupied structure.
Santuci is a registered sex offender convicted of lewd or lascivious exhibition on a victim under the age of 16 in Putnam County.
One of the women living in the Promenade Crossings apartment, located near Colonial Drive and Bennett Road, is a 20-year-old student at Valencia Community College and the other is a 19-year-old cosmetology student.
According to Orlando police, the women said that as they were going to bed Monday night, they heard a bump outside their apartment window, which is located on the second floor of the building. One of the women looked outside the window and saw a man, later identified as Santuci, climbing a ladder onto her second-floor patio, police said.
"I did what anyone does when they think they hear something outside. I cracked the window and I was like, oh my God. I couldn't believe it," Lindsey Cascadden said.
Cascadden and her roommate Juliene Botticello said they saw Santuci staring back at them when they looked outside.
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