Report: Woman with three kids in home barely escaped assault by intruder
A man who broke into a woman’s home and took her family hostage Thursday was about to assault the woman just before police arrived, according to a police report released Friday.
The woman told Las Vegas detectives that the accused home invader, Sean P. Cordeiro, 33, forced her onto a couch, fondled her and unbuckled his pants after kicking in her door early that morning.
“I’m going to have some fun with you before the cops get me,” Cordeiro said, according to the woman. But Cordeiro became distracted when lights from arriving patrol cars shined into the home, the report said. The woman had called her husband before calling 911 after hearing the break-in.
The woman was able to hide upstairs with her three children before the family was rescued by officers on a ladder at a back window.
Cordeiro was arrested shortly afterward. He told Metro he was high on methamphetamine and had hoped police would kill him. He told police he had recently served a 12-year prison sentence.
He was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on multiple felonies, including kidnapping, home invasion, robbery, burglary and attempted sexual assault charges.
Police said Cordeiro broke into the home on Millhopper Avenue, near lake Mead Boulevard and Buffalo Drive, after he watched her husband leave the house about 5 a.m.
Cordeiro told the woman he was “trying to get his life in order” and needed money to buy drugs.
He is also the suspect in a Feb. 1 home invasion about 4:30 a.m. on Grace Street in the southeast valley, police said. Cordeiro kicked in the door to a woman’s home and held her captive while he stole things from her home, including a gun and her van, police said.
The victims in both cases were not hurt, but terrified by the experience, police said.
Metro had asked several times for the public’s help in identifying the suspect in the previous home invasion, and released a surveillance video of their suspect on Wednesday.
Cordeiro told detectives he saw the news reports with his picture and told his buddies “he wasn’t going down like a bitch.”
He then complained he hadn’t showered or shaved because he didn’t like the razors provided to inmates in jail, the report said.
Contact reporter Mike Blasky at mblasky@reviewjournal.com. Follow @blasky on Twitter.
