{"id":23925,"date":"2025-11-04T03:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T03:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/23925\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T03:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T03:14:07","slug":"florida-sex-offender-charged-with-attempted-rape-in-bucks-county-home-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/23925\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida sex offender charged with attempted rape in Bucks County home invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/louis-sophie-arrest-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">BENSALEM, Pa. &#8211; Investigators say a Florida sex offender is accused of ambushing a woman in her Bucks County apartment, telling her she \u2018looks tasty\u2019 as he undressed.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Louis Sophie, 45, is accused of entering a woman&#8217;s apartment in the Lafayette Gardens community through an unlocked front door Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Investigators say Sophie grabbed the woman and began taking off his clothes while telling the victim she &#8220;looks tasty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">When the woman managed to fight off Sophie, who fled the apartment complex and crossed into Philadelphia through the Poquessing Creek.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Officers soon located and arrested Sophie at a Sunoco gas station less than a mile away from the apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Investigators discovered that Sophie, a Philadelphia resident, is a registered sex offender in Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Sophie was charged with burglary, attempted rape, simple assault, and other crimes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">He is being held at Bucks County Correctional Facility on $1M bail.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/bucks-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bucks County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article BENSALEM, Pa. &#8211; Investigators say a Florida sex offender is accused of ambushing a woman in her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194,197,592,139,539,593],"class_list":["post-23925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township","tag-bucks-county","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23925","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=23925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}