Sunset Park Man Arrested For Groping Sleeping Neighbor: Cops

SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — Police say they've arrested the man who crept into a Sunset Park apartment and began to grope the sleeping woman he found inside.

Augustin Orzco, 30, faces burglary and sex abuse charges for walking through an unlocked apartment door he found near Sixth Avenue and 40th Street about 3:30 a.m. Sunday and assaulting the 25-year-old woman within, police said.

Orzco ran away when the woman woke up, darted down Fifth Avenue and was last seen in a nearby bodega on 41st Street, police said.

The Brooklyn man, who lives near 40th Street and Sixth Avenue, was arrested in Crown Heights' 77th Precinct 10 p.m. Monday, according to police and court records.

Orzco was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court Tuesday on charges of burglary, sex abuse and criminal trespass then held on a $30,000 bail, court records show.