A La Center man is accused of drunkenly entering the wrong residence, charging at the occupants with a hatchet and stripping down to his underwear to go to sleep in the homeowner’s bed, court records say.
Cleve A. Goheen Rengo, 27, appeared Wednesday in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of second-degree assault, first-degree burglary and residential burglary in connection with the early Tuesday morning incident.
Clark County sheriff’s deputies were called shortly before 5:30 a.m. to a house in the 39000 block of Northeast Sixth Avenue in La Center for a report of an unknown, naked man inside the residence, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
Arriving deputies saw a man wearing only green-colored shorts running from the residence and trying to drive away in a white minivan. Deputies stopped the vehicle in the driveway and contacted the driver, identified as Goheen Rengo. Deputies said it was immediately clear the man was “extremely intoxicated,” the affidavit states.
Haley Watson, a resident at the house, and her friend, Nicholas Marosi, told deputies they were in a shop on the property hanging out when the door opened unexpectedly and an unknown man walked in “like he owned the place,” court records say.
They said they could tell that the stranger was intoxicated so they tried to “calm him down” and help him get home safely. They spent about a half-hour with Goheen Rengo, but then he broke a liquor bottle so they told him to leave. Goheen Rengo became agitated, picked up a hatchet and rushed at Watson, screaming, according to court documents.
Watson disarmed Goheen but cut her finger on the hatchet in the process. She and Marosi removed Goheen Rengo from the shop and told him to leave the property, the affidavit states.
Meanwhile, the homeowner, Su Gosney, was sleeping inside the house when she awoke to an unknown man, wearing only underwear, “flopping” onto her bed. She ran outside and found Watson and Marosi. They determined it was the same man and that he entered the unlocked residence after leaving the shop, court records say.
Marosi called 911 and went inside the house to find Goheen Rengo’s clothing lying in a bedroom. He then found the man curled up on the floor behind the sofa in the living room, according to court documents.
During his court hearing, Judge Daniel Stahnke set Goheen Rengo’s bail at $100,000. He will be arraigned June 28.
