Felipe Oquendo, 37, from Fort Walton Beach, was charged with false imprisonment and possession of drug paraphernalia on Friday morning.
A Florida man was arrested last week for locking his girlfriend in a bathroom while he attacked a mattress in an apparent search for a man he believed was “hiding inside.”
At around 1:10 a.m. on Friday, Oquendo’s girlfriend, who has yet to be identified, called police, telling them that her partner had forcibly locked her in the bathroom after accusing her of cheating on him. Oquendo then attacked a mattress, believing that his girlfriend’s alleged lover was “hiding inside,” according to authorities. The accused was said to have stabbed the mattress with a bedpost, before using his bare hands to rip it apart. His girlfriend was not injured in the incident.
Police discovered a glass pipe at the scene, which they believed Oquendo used to administer the drug. Authorities booked the suspect into Okaloosa County Jail. It is unclear whether he currently remains there or has been released on bail. Fort Walton Beach, a small city in the Florida panhandle, has a crime rate — 32 crimes per 1,000 residents — that is considerably higher than the national average across all communities in America, according to NeighborhoodScout. Around 72 percent of communities in Florida have crime rates lower than Fort Walton Beach, whose roughly 21,895 residents have a one in 32 chance of being a victim of a violent or property crime.
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