BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A Philadelphia man has been captured after he allegedly broke into a township apartment on Tuesday afternoon and attempted to sexually assault a woman, police said.<\/p>\n
Louis Sophie, 45, of Philadelphia, was charged with burglary, attempted rape, simple assault, and related charges. He was arraigned and sent to Bucks County Prison on 10 percent of $1 million bail.<\/p>\n
Police said that Sophie is a registered sex offender in Florida.<\/p>\n
Bensalem Police responded to Lafayette Gardens on Bristol Pike at 2:48 p.m. after a woman said she defended herself against “a heavyset white male” who entered her apartment through an unlocked front door. <\/p>\n
The man grabbed the woman and began taking his clothes off, police said. The woman began to scream for help and fought off the attacker. <\/p>\n
Sophie then fled and crossed into Philadelphia through the Poquessing Creek, police said.<\/p>\n
Bensalem Police swarmed the area and stopped a man matching the attacker’s description at the Sunoco station located at Frankford Avenue and Knights Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A Philadelphia man has been captured after he allegedly broke into a township apartment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-20660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}