Intruder awakens Castle resident

A male intruder awakened a female Castle resident while trying to rob her room Monday, University Police said yesterday. After awakening the College sophomore Jessica Myers, the man made explicit sexual remarks, she said. Myers said that she was asleep in her room early Monday morning but awoke when she heard somone moving. She added that at first she assumed it was her roomate. After she realized the person was an intruder, the man said he was a new resident and just borrowing her roommate's laundry detergent, she added last night. Meyers told him to leave, but before the man left stopped in her doorway and made explicit sexual remarks. "I told him to leave, and he started to leave. Then he paused at the doorway said that I was beautiful, then he asked me if I was horny," Myers said. "I told him to leave again, because he was scaring me. His comments got progressively [more obscene]." The man, who Myers said she judged to be 19 years old, did not leave the building but headed upstairs. When he came back downstairs, Meyers and two other residents chased him out of the building, she added. "I thought he'd left the building, but he had gone upstairs," Myers said. "He came down while I was sitting in the hallway, and then we went after him." Myers said she believes the man entered the Castle due to a faulty front door. The incident was not reported to the University Police until 11 a.m., nine hours after the incident. In an unrelated incident, a gunpoint robbery occurred at the MAC machine on 4000 block of Locust, according University Police Sergeant Lawrence Salotti. Salotti said the victim's name, gender and University affiliation were not reported. He said there were two assailants, but only one had a gun. In another unrelated incident on Monday morning, a female student was indecently assaulted at 10:30 a.m., Salotti said. The student was assaulted inside 4311 Spruce St., on the stairwell between the second and third floors, Salotti added. A University City Associates employee found the student and reported the incident to the University Police at noon. The man was not caught, Salotti said. In an unrelated incident on Wednesday a burglar at the Kappa Alpha Society was arrested and charged, according to Salotti. At 9 p.m. a fraternity resident suspecting an intruder called the University Police emergency number. The burglar is being slated for a preliminary hearing, Salotti added.

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