Early this morning, Bowling Green Police arrested a man for peeking into an apartment window – a week after he had been arrested for the same charge at a different apartment.
John Lawrence Anderson Jr., 26, formerly of Napoleon but who now lives in a hotel in Bowling Green, was seen around 12:25 a.m. looking in a window in the 400 block of North Main Street.
An officer had reportedly watched Anderson walk through the neighborhood, then watched as he approached a window of one of the apartments. The officer reported that he saw Anderson looking through the window, and due to last week’s arrest, he knew Anderson did not live at that address.
Anderson was cited for criminal trespassing and taken to the Wood County Jail.
On July 22, police responded to a report of a man looking in an apartment window in the 400 block of South Summit Street, and ended up arresting the man for multiple felony warrants.
On that day, Anderson was charged with criminal trespassing and falsification, and was taken to Wood County Jail for felony warrants out of Williams County.
Anderson reportedly identified himself with a wrong name, birthdate, and told police his ID was through the state of Illinois. He reportedly pointed out an apartment and said his friend lived there, and he was waiting for him to come home.
Dispatch searched for his made up name in all 50 states and could not locate any matches.
Anderson kept telling police that his friend who lived in the apartment was named Thomas Hitchens. Dispatch could find no records of anyone with that name living in the house or paying utilities there. An officer went to the apartment, and the resident said he did not know anyone by the name given by Anderson.
