Overview

• On June 9 in Davenport, Florida, a 44-year-old man broke into a vacant home to avoid returning to his wife after a domestic dispute.
• He remained in the residence for approximately four days, cooking meals and drawing a bath before a neighbor alerted Polk County deputies.
• Deputies arrested the suspect, identified as Joe or Jocelyn Charles, and charged him with felony unarmed burglary, misdemeanor petit theft and domestic battery.
• He remains in custody with bonds set at $10,000 for burglary and $250 for petit theft.
• The Polk County Sheriff’s Office, flagged by a 2022 ACLU report for civil rights concerns, quipped that the bath was “not too hot, nor too cold, but juuuuust right.”