A man who entered a house in Deltona (Florida) in the middle of the night with the apparent intention of robbing, but had to flee when discovered, was arrested by the police thanks to his forgot your phonelocal media reported.
A 31-year-old woman who was sleeping woke up, saw the man at her bedside and started screaming, forcing the intruder to rush out, according to Volusia County police.
The woman gave police a detailed description of the man, who grabbed her hair and tried to silence her by covering her mouth with his hand, but it was the phone found between the bed sheets that led officers to Cory Winston52 years old.
Winston, who lives about two miles (3.2 km) from the woman’s home, had a photo he had taken with his family as a screen image on his cell phone, so it was easy to find him.
In addition, he was captured by security cameras riding a bicycle in the vicinity of the house where the events took place last Sunday, according to the WESH television channel in Orlando (central Florida).
The police went to Winston’s house and, among other information, asked him for his cell phone number, which he said he had lost, and verified that it corresponded to the one found in the woman’s house.
winston, what I was on parole for other crimes when he entered the woman’s house, he was accused of several charges, including one for assaulting a law enforcement officer, whom he beat when he was interrogated at his home, and is being held without bail.