HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) - Police say a Massachusetts woman was woken up by a strange man covering her nose and mouth with his hand.
Authorities say the 52-year-old woman found 29-year-old Christian Lema in her room at a group home in Hyannis Sunday morning.
Barnstable Police say Lema entered the woman’s bedroom on the third floor of the home around 2:25 a.m., and the woman told police she screamed when she woke up.
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Lema tried to escape the home by running to the first floor, but there was no exit. Officers found him hiding in a bathtub.
Lema has been charged with armed burglary, assault and strangulation or suffocation.
He has been released on $500 cash bail. An attorney for Lema has not been immediately identified.
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