A man was recorded on surveillance video entering a woman's home and creepily watching her sleep before leaving with a pair of socks around half an hour later.
Dan Abimana, 23, is accused of entering the unlocked home of a woman in Ankeny, Iowa, at around 3.30am on April 1.
He then proceeded to rearrange her shoes, stare at her, touch her knees, put on socks, write a note, use the bathroom and then drank a glass of water from her kitchen sink.
The woman eventually woke up when he touched her knee as she lay on the couch. When she did he was seen on the video quickly leaving the apartment.
The woman's daughter-in-law circulated footage of the encounter and later Abimana surrendered himself to police, Ankeny Police Department confirmed.

Dan Abimana, 23, was recorded on surveillance video entering a woman's home and watching her sleep for around half an out before leaving with a pair of socks

Abimana (pictured on April 14) was charged with two counts of trespassing as the police said they do not believe he had bad intentions, but that alcohol 'played a role'
'I don't think that gentlemen had any really bad intentions but it could have ended a lot worse. He's lucky someone didn't find him and shoot him,' Sergeant Corey Schneden, a spokesperson for Ankeny Police Department, told DailyMail.com.
The police department ended up charging him with two counts of trespassing.
'It was a simple misdemeanor we charged him with. The video in this case might have helped him because it just showed him doing strange things,' said Schneden. 'Alcohol was definitely a factor, to what level I don't know.'
The woman, who said she did not want to be identified, told the Law and Crime the experience was traumatizing for her, members of her family, and even her dog.
She said Abimana woke her up by making contact with her knee. She then said she asked him multiple times who he was before he eventually replied mysteriously, 'I'm the guy who dropped you off last night.'
'At that point, I knew he wasn't a friend of the kids or anything,' she told Law and Crime. 'My assumption was that he was on drugs or something,' she said. 'I didn't smell alcohol on him when he was standing right in front of me and I was awake.'
The woman then screamed for her son, who arrived, but the man had swiftly made off.

He was also recorded writing an unintelligible note, which he left in the apartment after he left

In the footage the man was seen repeatedly rearranging shoes and playing around with socks
The woman confirmed a note had been left - it was five or six lines jotted on a piece of paper. She says the only intelligible part referred to watching her sleep.
'Part of it said, "While you are sleeping," and then it just went into jumbled letters together. You couldn't even sound out anything it was just random letters,' she said. 'Five or six lines in one paragraph and then one line at the bottom.'
She said the door had been left open and that's how he got in, and warned others to always lock their doors when they sleep.
'Lock your doors!' she said. 'I can't say that loud enough or enough times. I am really really grateful that nothing happened to the kids that were in the apartment.'
She said she was disappointed Abimana only charged with trespassing.
'I was very upset, I was not happy at all,' she told Law and Crime. 'I felt at the least it should have been either burglary or assault. I was in fear for my life when I woke up.'

The woman's daughter-in-law, Brittany Andrews, shared the surveillance footage to a community group online and the next day Abimana came forward to say he was the man in the video

Andrews confirmed her mother-in-law wanted to stay the night so was asleep on the couch
The woman's daughter-in-law, Brittany Andrews, also addressed the incident in an interview with Inside Edition. She says her mother-in-law wanted to stay the night so was asleep on the couch.
'He drank out of a cup that was on the counter that was someone else's drink. He kind of mingled around our kitchen quite a bit. He got on my mother-in-law's phone quite a few times, got in in his pocket. Set it down,' Andrews told Inside Edition.
'It appeared he was taking photos of her while she was sleeping at one some point. He put on a pair of socks, clean laundry, that was waiting to be put away,' she said.
'I have trouble sleeping,' said her mother-in-law. 'I constantly wake up in the night and look around to see if anyone's in my room. If I go around the corner coming in, I look to see if anybody's there. I mean it's really affected me. I want to see some justice.'
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