BAYTOWN, TX (KTRK) -- Baytown police have arrested a sex offender for allegedly trying to kidnap the same eight-year-old girl twice over the weekend.
Police began investigating Sunday evening after the eight-year-old girl and her adult cousin called authorities to report him. The girl told officers she was in the 3200 block of Garth Road Sunday when a man grabbed her by the arm and pulled her by her hair toward his apartment. The suspect let go when the girl began screaming and she ran away.
On Monday, the suspect tried to do the same thing.
Police identified the suspect as 39-year-old Cleofas Garcia, a registered sex offender. They found him hiding inside his girlfriend's apartment and arrested him.
Garcia now is charged with attempted kidnapping. He also faces a second charge of failing to register his change of address within the seven days as required by law.