An 87-year-old Bloomington woman said a man broke into her home and verbally attacked her Thursday morning, according to police reports. \nSteven J. Fernandez, 20, reportedly kicked in the back door of the elderly woman's home in the 700 block of East 12th Street at 2:13 a.m. Thursday. The victim said she was sitting in her living room during the early morning hours because she was unable to sleep when the man entered, approached her and began "yelling and screaming at her," according to the police report. The man kept screaming "Where are they?" while getting close to her face and yelling obscenities. \nShe also said the intruder threatened to shoot her if she didn't tell him where they were, the report said.\nWhen the victim tried to call 911, the man took the phone from her hands, then went from room to room in the house, looking for someone or something before leaving the house, according to the report. \nThe police report said the man had hit the door so hard, the nails in the frame of the door had been knocked out of the wood.\nWhen police responded to the call, they found Fernandez beating on the front door of a residence in the 600 block of East 13th Street. \nThe report stated he had dropped a pair of handcuffs by the door. Police discovered them during their investigation. \nPoliced arrested Fernandez on suspicion of burglary, theft, intimidation, interfering with the reporting of a crime and consumption of alcohol.\nPolice arrested a man Wednesday after they received two separate complaints from Bloomington residents of a driver threatening others on or by the road with a knife.\nDavid P. Oakley, 26, was arrested on preliminary charges of intimidation for the second altercation, with a photo lineup set up to identify him as the man in the first incident.\nAccording to reports, the first altercation occurred at 6:26 p.m. on South Henderson Avenue. Police reports stated a 26-year-old man and some friends had been in a vehicle traveling north when a man in a maroon Honda Civic began honking his horn repeatedly, yelling out his window and gesturing at the vehicle in front of him. When the first vehicle pulled into the Hoosier Court parking lot, the man followed. \nHe approached the group of men who had gotten out of their vehicle, telling them he was going to "kill them," according to the police report. The man then pulled out a pocket knife and grabbed one of the men in the group by the neck. \nThe man waved the knife close to the victim's face and threatened him, telling him he had just spent seven years in prison and "was not afraid of anything," according to statements in the police report.\nThe group of men got back into their vehicle, at which point the man also went back to his car and left the lot.\nThe second incident occurred outside the Justice Building in the 300 block of North College Avenue. \nA group of residents across the street from the building noted a man honking his car horn continually and screaming, according to the report. \nThe group told the man to quiet down. Then he got out of his car and approached them on the steps. He pulled out a knife and reportedly threatened to cut them with it. \nWhen police responded to the incident, Oakley was sitting on the hood of his vehicle. \nOakley has a criminal record that includes burglary charges, stolen vehicle charges and probation violations.
sh: Young woman attacked, shook off muggers
A 21-year-old female was attacked outside her apartment in the 300 block of East University Street as she was walking to her car in a nearby parking lot. \nAccording to the police report, two men whistled at her and then attempted to steal her purse. The victim told police one man grabbed her purse, which was hanging across her shoulders, and began pulling it and struggling with her. \nThe second man lifted his shirt, revealing his waistband and the black handle of a gun, which was tucked into his pants. \nThe woman told police she began screaming loudly, at which point one of the men put his hand over her mouth. \nAfter struggling for a few moments, the woman was able to pull away from the men, who then ran off in the direction of South Lincoln Avenue. \nThe woman described her attackers as white men wearing blue jeans. One was about 6'2" with a dark-haired crew cut and a beige T-shirt; the second had short blond hair and was wearing a white T-shirt, she said.\n-- Contact BPD at 339-4477.
