A homeless man on parole in California has been arrested after sneaking into a home and touching a 12-year-old girl, police said.
Riverside police officers responded around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday to a possible home burglary, and found a suspect down the street when they arrived. Daveon Alvarez, 28, a transient, entered the unlocked home and saw the girl sleeping on the couch, the Riverside Police Department said.
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He touched the girl's face, which startled her and prompted her to run off to alert her family, authorities said.
Alvarez, who was on parole for auto theft, allegedly took a set of keys from the home and fled.
He was found after a neighbor reported seeing him inside a car belonging to the family of the home he allegedly entered.
Police arrested Alvarez on suspicion of annoying or molesting a child, burglary, attempted auto theft, and violation of parole. He is being held without bail.
In a social media post, the police department noted that California doesn't consider the alleged crimes as "violent" and that it couldn't release his mugshot "for you to see a much better image of him."
