A woman woke up to find a man in her bed in New Jersey and asked if he could spend the night, and authorities are linking him to at least two other similar stalking incidents, police say.
On June 18, the lurking man in the sketch made his way into the woman’s home in Palisades Park just before dawn and crawled into the 40-year-old’s bed while she was sound asleep, according to the police. He didn’t break in, but he entered the home either through an unlocked window or door.
“That’s terrifying,” Ashley Conde of Palisades Park said. “I definitely want to triple, quadruple check my doors before going to bed and being home.”
When the woman woke up to the stranger in her bed, he asked if he could stay the night, officials said. She screamed and he ran off.
Investigators believe he is the same man who followed a different woman into a building on Grand Avenue, knocked on her door and made sexual comments before taking off.
Earlier in the month, a woman was followed down Roosevelt Place near the Shoprite and authorities think it is the same guy.
He stood outside her home until he was confronted by her relative, police said. The suspect claimed he was looking for an address and then took off.
“That’s very alarming,” Aayah Ahles of Palisades Park said. “I’m always here with my sister and my mother. We’re always here.”
Nobody has been injured, police said, but a manhunt to track down the suspect is underway to get him off the streets as the neighborhood is staying vigilant.
“I’m always alert,” Ahles said. “Always watching the news and I hear about things happening, never heard about it happening here.”
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