A Colorado landlord who was busted on camera having sex in a tenant’s bed did not show up for his Thursday court appearance because the illegal immigrant was in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
KKTV reports:
Carlos Quijada was scheduled to be in court Thursday, but didn’t show up because he’s still in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. An El Paso County judge still signed a warrant for his arrest for not appearing. ICE didn’t notify the courts that they had Quijada in custody.
Quijada faces felony trespassing charges after he was recorded in late November having sex on the bed Logan Pierce shares with his wife at Skyway Condominiums in Colorado Springs.
“I got a notification from one of the cameras on lunch the other day that it detected noise and that was strange because both of us work all day, every day,” Pierce told the news site.
“I opened up the camera and kind of had to like quit the program and … restart it again because I really didn’t believe what I saw,” he said.
The video allegedly show Quijada have sex with a woman on his bed, then use his wife’s wedding dress to clean up his mess.
“I guess the first thing that went through my mind was like complete and utter disbelief,” said Pierce, who immediately called his wife and police about the incident.
“I said, ‘Honey, I think we need to move, like, immediately,’” he said.
Pierce said his wife, Mikaela Digiulio, was particularly offended that Quijada used her wedding dress like an old rag.
“It was like a total violation of privacy. Just to have somebody to come in unannounced is enough, but … then go forth with sleeping with somebody on your bed while you’re not there. It was scary,” he told KKTV. “To see how upset she immediately got because she was the one that realized that’s what that was, and they just threw it back, and now that’s gone because the authorities took it for DNA evidence.”
Quijada’s arrest records show he told police he “felt very bad about the event,” but the landlord repeatedly dodged questions from KKTV reporters.
“Ms. Digiulio said her dress, sheets, pillows and comforter were ruined,” according to court records. “Ms. Digiulio said the total value of the damaged items was $335.”
Quijada’s arrest warrant also states the landlord and his partner in crime “looked directly at the camera, which was visibly mounted in the bedroom at eye level” but continued with their romp anyway.
“Obviously landlords don’t have the ability to go into tenant apartments and do whatever they want to do,” Colorado Springs Police Lt. Howard Black told KKTV. “We would want to know if once you air this if other individuals within that building or any other building had a landlord that was trespassing inside their residence without their permission or outside of what the lease allows them to do.”
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