Man responds to fake sex ad at wrong house

WEST HARTFORD, Conn., April 6 (UPI) -- Connecticut police said a man who responded to a fake online sex ad went to the wrong house and is now accused of crimes including burglary and sexual assault.

Police said Richard Zeh, 29, of Newington, Conn., was responding to a fake ad that purported to be from a married woman seeking group sex at her home but went to the wrong address Monday in West Hartford and let himself inside, The Hartford (Conn.) Courier reported Tuesday.

Police Lt. Stephen Estes said Zeh was confronted by an 18-year-old woman who repeatedly told him he was at the wrong house and told him to leave. Estes said Zeh refused to leave, not believing the woman, until he showed her the Craigslist ad he was responding to and she pointed out his address error.

Estes said Zeh then went to the house listed on the ad and was told by residents that the ad was a fake. He said the suspect tried to enter the back door of the home before returning to the 18-year-old's home.

"I want to make this thing work," Estes quotes Zeh as saying to the 18-year-old.

"Now she's really afraid," Estes said. "He's reaching out and grabbing her."

He said Zeh fled after the woman pointed out that the men from the home in the ad were outside copying his license plate information.

Zeh was arrested on charges including second-degree burglary, fourth-degree sexual assault, first-degree criminal trespass and disorderly conduct. He was being held in lieu of $250,000 bail.