Port Charlotte Man Arrested After Breaking Into Woman’s Home and Raping Her

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla.—A Port Charlotte man has been arrested and charged with sexual battery, burglary, and false imprisonment after he allegedly entered a woman’s home and sexually assaulted her while she slept.

On Monday, September 8, the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a woman who said she woke up to find a man, identified as Braxton Jeramiah Jacobs, 19, in her bedroom holding a knife and performing sexual acts on her. The victim, who knows Jacobs, was able to make an audio recording during the incident.

Detectives located Jacobs at his home on Westchester Blvd. During an interview, he initially denied the claims, but after being presented with the audio recording and biological evidence from the scene, he confessed…

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