By The Advocate Staff Report
Baton Rouge Police are accusing a 35-year-old New Iberia man of two additional home invasion and sexual battery attacks in Baton Rouge.
Previously under arrest for three home invasions in the city, police said they’ve found enough evidence to bring new counts against Vorris Mouton in attacks that occurred in the Webb Park and Tara Subdivision areas in mid-January.
The State Police Crime Lab used DNA collected at the Webb Park area where an attack occurred on Jan. 12 to connect Mouton with the incident, according to a Baton Rouge Police Department press release.
Though no DNA was collected at the Tara Subdivision home where another attack happened on Jan. 12, detectives did collect enough evidence to arrest Mouton, police said.
Mouton was originally arrested on Jan. 20 when DNA testing linked him to a Dec. 22 break-in on Reymond Avenue during which the intruder threatened to kill an elderly woman and demanded she show him to her safe. He didn’t take any money and fled after a brief struggle with the woman.
Mouton was re-arrested on counts of aggravated burglary and sexual battery after the crime lab linked him to a Jan. 17 home invasion in the Sherwood Forest neighborhood. In that attack, a man broke into a home between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. and was crouching near the bed when the 70-year old woman woke up. The man grabbed her but then fled after she said she didn’t have any money.
Mouton is also accused of breaking a window and entering a home on Wartelle Drive. When a 53-year-old woman in the house woke up to investigate, she saw someone wearing a mask. The person grabbed a purse and left the house through the broken window. DNA left at the scene was linked to Mouton’s DNA, police said.
