A man who apparently cut off his GPS ankle monitor while on probation has been charged with sexually assaulting a young mother this fall in her Southeast D.C. home.
Antwon Pitt, 21, made his first appearance in D.C. Superior Court on Friday after being arrested for a crime that shocked residents in Hill East, near the Stadium-Armory Metro station.
Police say Pitt entered a small apartment building on the 1800 block of A Street SE about 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13 and sexually assaulted a woman working from home. She looked up to see the man in her living room, court documents say.
"Stop fighting or I'll kill you," the attacker told the victim as he began to sexually assault her, documents say. The attack left her with facial fractures that required surgery, and bruising all over her body.
The victim told police the attacker stood 6-foot-5, had a lean build and wore distinctive gray shoes with orange shoelaces.
Pitt had been arrested, charged with a felony and released just two weeks before the attack, as News4 previously reported. He was found Sept. 30 in the second-floor men's room of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library with a GPS ankle monitor and synthetic marijuana, police said.
At the time, he was on probation for an armed robbery in July 2013, for which he took a plea deal, records show. He was given two years confinement and three years supervised release.
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After Pitt was arrested at the library Sept. 30, he was charged with felony drug possession, released prior to a trial and ordered to not commit any crimes, records show.
In addition to the brutal sexual assault, Pitt is accused of a second crime after removing the GPS device, court records show.
A woman awoke about 6:15 a.m. Oct. 6 in her home on the 600 block of Michigan Avenue NE --near Catholic University -- to find a stranger standing in her bedroom. The man blurted "I will get out of here" and left with a totebag containing her cellphone, wallet and university identification card, court documents say.
The victim described the intruder as a man of the same size and build as the first victim Oct. 13 did, with the same distinctive shoes with bright laces.
Pitt, who matches that physical description, was found with both women's cellphones, prosecutors said Friday. He was arrested Oct. 14 and held in Prince George's County. He waived extradition and was transported Friday to D.C., where he was charged with first-degree sexual abuse and two counts of first-degree burglary.
Councilmember Charles Allen said he believes it is worth looking at whether penalties for tampering with a GPS ankle monitor should become harsher.
