Woman Awakes To Home Intruder Wearing Only Underwear
ORMOND BEACH, Florida -- When Volusia County
Sheriff’s deputies caught up to a suspicious man loitering about a
neighborhood near Ormond Beach, Florida
Wednesday morning, Charles Snowden claimed he was looking around for tennis
balls.
The 41-year-old Snowden had a harder time explaining what he was allegedly doing
in a stranger’s house dressed in only his underwear. Deputies were
dispatched to the neighborhood after the Volusia Sheriff’s Office received a call
at 7:16 a.m. reporting an intruder inside a house on Woodcrest Drive. “I just woke up.
There was a strange man walking in my house,” the caller told the
Sheriff’s Office’s call-taker. “He’s walking down the
street right now. He’s in underwear -- ripped.”
The victim told deputies
that she awoke to the sound of an intruder coming through her sliding glass
doors and then going through the silverware drawer in the kitchen. Afraid to
confront the man, the victim waited until the intruder walked out the front
door and then called for help. As best as the victim could tell, nothing was
taken from her house.
About six minutes after she called for help, deputies
spotted Snowden in the neighborhood, dressed only in a pair of boxer shorts. He
claimed to deputies that he had been visiting a resident in the area and was looking for
tennis balls for his friend’s dog. His explanation for being stripped
down to his boxer shorts: Snowden said he took his clothes off because he had
gotten them wet while doing some pressure washing earlier in the day. He also
denied being in the victim’s house.
Deputies, however, made one
observation that may have explained Snowden’s strange behavior: They say he
appeared to be under the influence of an undetermined substance.