Berkeley Police Searching for Burglary and Sexual Battery Suspect

John Martin

Berkeley police released a photograph Thursday of a 33-year-old Berkeley man wanted on suspicion of sexual battery. Here’s the press release:

On Sunday, June 23, 2013 at approximately 9:30 a.m. a suspect entered a multi-unit residential building in the 2400 block of Piedmont Avenue. The suspect prowled through several rooms. During this time, the victim was asleep in her room. The suspect entered the room finding the victim in bed. The suspect touched the victim in an inappropriate manner causing her to wake up. Finding the suspect in her room the victim started to yell. The suspect then fled the building. Through a subsequent investigation the suspect has been identified as John Anthony Martin, 33 years old of Berkeley. Martin is described as being 6’6” tall, 280 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes.

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