TYNETH Santos Mariur, 19, was arrested for entering a home and pulling a blanket that covered a woman who was sleeping while he stood beside her bed in the early morning of Nov. 12, 2022.
Mariur was charged with burglary, disturbing the peace, and criminal trespass.
At a hearing Monday morning, Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho imposed a $5,000 bail on the defendant who was represented by Assistant Public Defender Tyler Scott. Assistant Attorney General Frances Demapan appeared for the government.
After the bail hearing, the judge remanded Mariur to the custody of the Department of Corrections and ordered him to return to court for a preliminary hearing on Nov. 23 at 10 a.m., and for an arraignment on Nov. 28 at 9 a.m. before Presiding Judge Roberto Naraja.
According to the complaint against Mariur, Department of Public Safety officers responded on Saturday, Nov. 12, to a call about an attempted rape in Chalan Kiya at around 4:11a.m.
At the scene, the officers met with the victim who was in tears inside a car near the house.
She told police that she got home from work on Friday night at around 10 p.m. and went to bed. But she left her door unlocked in case her boyfriend arrived.
At around 3 a.m., she said she was awakened by someone pulling her blanket. She said when she looked up, she saw Mariur standing next to her by the bed and holding her blanket. She said she began screaming, stood up and asked him what he was doing there. She then made her way outside to her car where she called her boyfriend and the police.
Mariur told police that he heard someone at the back of his house, so he went over to the victim’s residence to ask the woman’s boyfriend, who is a police officer, to help him look around for “stealers.”
But when no one responded to his knocks, Mariur said he entered the home and called out to the cop from the living room.
He said while he was calling out for the cop, the woman woke up and asked him what he was doing in their house, to which he responded that he was looking for her boyfriend.
When the victim told Mariur that her boyfriend was outside their house, he went out in search for him and when he returned, the woman told him to go back to his own house.
Police said Mariur “smelled heavily of alcohol.”
Tyneth Santos Mariur, right, with Assistant Public Defender Tyler Scott following a bail hearing in Superior Court on Monday.
