ANAHEIM – A parolee is accused of sneaking into a couple’s home on Halloween night and touching a woman in bed as she slept next to her husband, authorities said Tuesday.

Officials said a violent fight erupted inside the bedroom as the husband tried to subdue the intruder, the Sheriff’s Department said. After the struggle, the couple realized the intruder was the same man who had snuck into a party at their home two weeks earlier.

“There was a pretty good fight in there until he subdued the subject,” said Jim Amormino, spokesman for the Sheriff’s Department. “This had to have been a frightening experience.”

When deputies arrived, both the husband and wife told deputies that the man had walked into a party at their home along the 9000 block of Pacific Avenue in unincorporated Anaheim two weeks earlier, Amormino said. But no one at the time was sure if he had accompanied one of the guests.

The suspect, identified by sheriff’s officials as Christopher David Schwanke, 36, was acting oddly at the party and the husband kicked him out. Schwanke then dropped his pants and exposed himself to the guests, Amormino said.

“Look at my man-gina,” Schwanke told the guests before leaving, Amormino said.

No one at the party reported the incident to authorities.

On Halloween, the couple told authorities, they spotted him walking around the neighborhood at about 7:30 p.m. The husband approached the man and tried to find out who he was, Amormino said, to which Schwanke allegedly said he was in the neighborhood to meet a female friend.

The couple left, he said.

That evening, the couple was asleep in their bedroom when the woman felt someone touching her, Amormino said. The woman at first thought it was her husband. When she realized it wasn’t, the couple was startled to allegedly find Schwanke hiding on the floor near the bed.

As the husband fought to subdue Schwanke, several items were broken, Amormino said. When deputies arrived, a shirt believed to belong to Schwanke was found in the bedroom and another was discovered outside the home.

Schwanke, who lives in Huntington Beach, was being held on Tuesday on suspicion of burglary and digital penetration with a foreign object in the Men’s Central Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail, according to arrest records.

Officials said the suspect was on parole. Court records show he has been convicted of multiple crimes in the past, including possession of a controlled substance, driving under the influence of alcohol, assault with a deadly weapon and theft.

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