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Thursday, September 21, 2006 8:36 AM CDT

Stranger reportedly enters home, strips

By TERRI RICHARDSON
Texarkana Gazette

A man who entered the unlocked door of a Texarkana, Ark., home Wednesday morning was arrested by police after exhibiting bizarre behavior, police said.

By the time police arrived on the scene, the suspect was running nude through a nearby pasture, said officer Chris Rankin, Texarkana, Ark., Police Department spokesman.

Tim Smith, 19, of Texarkana, was arrested and booked into the Bi-State Justice Building jail on charges of residential burglary, third-degree assault, fleeing, disorderly conduct and refusal to submit to arrest. Police said he is being held for mental evaluation, and no bail has been set.

According to police reports, Smith entered a home in the 3400 block of Creekside Drive through an unlocked front door and immediately was confronted by the female occupant.

The resident, Linda Smith, no relation to the suspect, said the man who came to the house just before noon seemed to have been on a strange mission.

“He knocked on my bedroom door, and when I opened it he told me he was sent here to have sex with me,� she said. “I told him, ‘I didn’t think so,’ and that he needed to leave.�

Police say the suspect then picked up the woman’s 2-year-old grandchild, who was in the bedroom at the time. After talking Smith into putting down the child, the homeowner moved her family into a bathroom, locked the door and called the police.

She reported to police that the man, who was clad in a gray T-shirt, blue jeans, tennis shoes and cap, was behaving strangely.

“I started to pushing him back up the hallway from my bedroom and told him I was calling the police and he told me to go ahead,� the woman said.

“I started to pushing him back up the hallway from my bedroom and told him I was calling the police and he told me to go ahead,� the woman said.

She said she then called for her daughter’s fiance, who, unknown to her, had just left minutes earlier to go to the store.

“I was calling for Chad, but he wasn’t in, so my daughter ... came into the living room, and we both told him he needed to leave,� she said.

As she and her daughter started calling 911 emergency dispatcher, the man stripped naked in the living room and fled after stealing a pair of shoes.

When officers arrived on the scene, they found Smith running naked through a nearby pasture.

“He started to chase some of the horses and grab at their tails,� she said.

The suspect resisted arrest and fled from the officers, who used pepper spray to subdue him.

By this time, her daughter’s fiance returned from the store.

“Chad tackled him while the officers put the handcuffs on him,� she said.

“We’ll keep our doors locked from now on.�