Sex requests at bedroom windows bring burglary charges

Sex requests at bedroom windows bring burglary charges
... A Rockford man allegedly reached through the screens of two women's windows. He told police he was drunk.

Last update: November 23, 2006 - 8:41 PM

A Rockford man faces burglary charges after two incidents in Brooklyn Park early Sunday in which he allegedly implored women from outside their bedroom windows to have sex with him -- and thrust one or both hands through the windowscreens.

When arrested a short time later, Bryan Westerlund, 18, claimed he was drunk, according to a criminal complaint filed in Hennepin County District Court.

"It's kind of a bizarre case," said police Capt. Greg Roehl, who noted that only about 14 minutes elapsed between the break-ins.

The first incident occurred about midnight Saturday in the 7000 block of Kentucky Avenue N. As she was watching TV in bed, a woman said, a man stuck his hand through the window screen and proclaimed in crude terms a desire to have sex with her.

He left when she said she was calling 911. His hand was light-skinned, she said.

A short time later, less than a half-mile away, in the 6700 block of 68th Avenue N., a woman was awakened by a voice at the window saying, "Hey, come here." She went to the window, she said, and an arm broke through the screen, grabbing her head and hair.

"I want to be with you," the man said. "I want to have sex with you."

She pulled away, she said, and the man reached in and grabbed her again with both hands. She bit him, broke free again and called 911, the complaint said.

The second victim later identified Westerlund as the intruder, and a police dog tracked his scent from the second residence to the first.

On Wednesday night he was in the Hennepin County jail.

At the time of Westerlund's arrest, Roehl said, he had an outstanding warrant for a petty misdemeanor charge of marijuana possession.