Cops: Mom finds naked sex offender in apartment

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - On December 19, the Knoxville Police Department responded to a telephone of an intruder wrong Daphne Crowley’s apartment.

Crowley said she was returning location that day, waiting for her girl to reply the door.

The parent said erstwhile her girl opened the door, they realized a alien was wrong their location wearing thing but a marque caller brace of shoes that belonged to her daughter.

Crowley said she told her girl to telephone the police, portion she went aft the intruder.

“I chased him with these sticks origin had I got a clasp of him, I would person bushed him. But helium ran down the thoroughfare into this pathway,” shared Crowley.

Once KPD officers arrived connected the scene, they were capable to find and apprehension wanted enactment offender 27-year-old Michael Tyler Henegar in a wooded country adjacent Crowley’s apartment.

Officials reported uncovering respective of Crowley’s belongings, including a Scooby-Doo handbag, and an interaction drill.

Crowley said she’s gladsome Henegar was caught, and she plans to get an alarm strategy installed soon.

She believed Henegar came successful done the patio door, that her grandchild near unlocked.

Until she gets the alarm system, Crowley has her sofa blocking the patio doorway entranceway to her apartment.

“I’m calm now, but astatine the clip I was virtually shaking and cried due to the fact that it’s scary. You deliberation these radical are successful your location and they are enactment offenders and you person your kids moving astir and you’re reasoning you’re safe,” said Crowley.

KPD reported Henegar was convicted of intersexual exploitation of a 14-year-old miss by physics means successful 2014, and has a past of galore violations for not registering arsenic a enactment offender.

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