Man falls asleep in wrong home, arrested for stolen property

A 22-year-old man was arrested by Bloomington Police after he was found passed out in a stranger’s home.

A 21-year-old woman woke up at about 5:30 a.m. Saturday to the breathing sounds of a strange man, John Gregory Johnson II, sleeping in her room.

The woman, who lives on North Fess Avenue, snuck out the back door.
She re-entered the house and walked upstairs and woke up her housemate.

The two took a flashlight back to the first woman’s room to reveal Johnson asleep on the floor, Bloomington Police Sgt. Jim Batcho said.

Police arrived, and after several attempts to wake Johnson up, he awoke and fled. He tripped on a sidewalk a few blocks away.

Police found items belonging to the woman in his possession, including a watch, passport and birth control pills.

Police also found marijuana on him.

Johnson said he thought he was at his home. Police said he had extremely slurred speech.

A police interview with Johnson was cut short because of his extreme intoxication and because he said he couldn’t remember anything, including how the items and the marijuana got on him.

The reports didn’t say how he entered the house in the first place.
Johnson was arrested on multiple preliminary felony charges.

The charges include felony burglary, residential entry, possession of stolen property, public intoxication, resisting law enforcement and possession of marijuana, Batcho said.

According to BPD, he has since been bonded out of the Monroe County Correctional Center.

— Nick Cusack