RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A man arrested after an indecent exposure call in Raleigh Wednesday was also identified as the same suspect in a burglary call last week in which a woman found a naked man in her room, police said.
The Raleigh Police Department said that officers responded to a burglary call in the 8100 block of Town Drive, which is at an apartment complex behind the Walmart near Triangle Town Center, at 11:39 p.m. on May 16. Though the suspect was gone by the time they arrived at the scene, officers were told by the victim that she saw a man “in her room unclothed when she woke up,” according to police.
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Then on Wednesday, five days after the first call, Raleigh police were called to an indecent exposure incident in the 5900 block of Stillcrest Way, which is at an apartment complex about a mile away from where the burglary call happened. Once on scene on Stillcrest Way, they found and arrested a man later identified as 30-year-old Avante Cooper.
“According to video evidence obtained in the investigation, Cooper was also identified as the same suspect in the burglary incident on May 16,” the Raleigh Police Department said in a release.
A warrant shows Cooper is charged with one count each of felony first degree burglary and felony attempted first degree forcible rape for the incident on Town Drive.
A separate warrant for the second incident shows Cooper is charged with two counts of misdemeanor indecent exposure, one count of misdemeanor possession of marijuana up to half an ounce and one count of misdemeanor possession of marijuana paraphernalia. According to that warrant, Cooper exposed himself in the “apartment common area” at the Stillcrest Way location. The warrant then says that he exposed himself again at another complex common area across the street at an apartment building in the 4100 block of Tristone Falls.
Court records show Cooper made a first appearance for both incidents in Wake County on Thursday afternoon. He was given no bond for the felony counts and a $1,000 bond for the misdemeanor counts.
