- Chadwell Clement Smith, 34, was arrested for allegedly entering an elderly woman’s Salt Lake home armed with an ax.
- Smith watched the woman for months before entering her apartment uninvited, police say.
- Police arrested him for investigation of kidnapping and burglary.
SALT LAKE CITY — A man was arrested over the weekend after police say he entered an elderly woman’s apartment at random after allegedly “watching” her for months, kidnapping and assaulting her.
Chadwell Clement Smith, 34, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail Saturday for investigation of kidnapping, burglary, possession of a weapon by a restricted person and marijuana possession.
Salt Lake police were called to an apartment in the area of 700 East and 700 South “for an urgent welfare check” after an unknown man entered a woman’s residence early that morning and was still there in the afternoon, a police booking affidavit states…