A Rockville man was arrested in Potomac Nov. 3 for peeping into the residence of his estranged wife.
Osmin Isai Alfaro, 26, of the 700 Block of Burgundy Drive is charged with Trespass-Peeping Tom, a misdemeanor punishable by up to 30 days in jail, after Montgomery County Police special assignment team officers observed him looking though the glass sliding door of a home on Scotland Drive.
THE OFFICERS were conducting surveillance there when they observed Alfaro run across the open area between two rows of townhouses on the 7300 block of Scotland Drive. He moved quietly over an area of newly fallen leaves and then peered into the sliding door for several moments, according to charging documents filed in Montgomery County District Court. He moved away and drove off in a red pickup truck.
Officers stopped the truck and found that Alfaro was not carrying identification and had an outstanding arrest warrant for failing to appear in court after he was caught earlier driving while suspended. A computer check also revealed that Alfaro’s license was suspended and that he is a registered sex offender, according to the court documents.
Files in Montgomery County Circuit Court show that Alfaro was convicted in December, 2003 of third-degree sex offense and violating a protection order and sentenced to one year in prison, with all but five months suspended.
In April, 2004 he was charged with second degree assault, disorderly conduct, violating a protection order and resisting arrest following an incident at the Congressional Plaza Shopping Center on Rockville Pike.
According to charging documents in that case, he had pinned down the same victim in the front seat of her car in the parking lot. He was intoxicated and refused to place his hands behind his back when he was confronted by a police officer, according to the charging documents dated April 13, 2004. The officer used a tazer on him and he fell to the ground, where he kicked her in the back of the leg before being placed under arrest.
ALFARO PLEADED guilty in July 2004 to the Violating a Protection Order charge.
Documents show that parts of the case was appealed to the Court of Special Appeals Maryland’s second-highest court.
A three-judge panel will rule on the appeal based on briefs and circuit court records, but will not hear oral arguments, according to Rita Buettner, a Maryland Courts spokeswoman.
The victim currently lives with her sister and a new boyfriend. Alfaro sometimes leaves threatening messages on her cell phone and sometimes appears around her mother’s house, the victim told police, according to the charging documents. He is not welcome around her house and “certainly did not have permission to look in her windows,” the documents stated.