A 31-year-old Bainbridge Island man was charged with residential burglary last Friday in Kitsap County District Court after he allegedly tried to grope a neighbor and took marijuana from her apartment.

Rodrique C. Collins was arrested by Bainbridge police on Thursday, Aug. 20 and booked into Kitsap County Jail for the crimes of first-degree burglary and fourth-degree assault.

According to court documents, the victim contacted police on

Aug. 6 and said Collins, a downstairs neighbor at an apartment complex on High School Road, knocked on her apartment door just before 10:30 p.m. Aug. 3.

The woman said Collins asked if she wanted to “hang out” and she said no and asked him to leave.

When he wouldn’t go, the woman said, she offered to give him a small amount of marijuana if he agreed to leave. When he agreed, the woman told him to wait outside while she went back into the apartment.

Once inside, however, she turned around to find Collins standing behind her. She asked him to go four or five times, but he did not leave.

Collins then allegedly ran his finger up her thigh and tried to lift her skirt, and when the woman slapped his hand away, he touched her on the stomach and moved his hand between her breasts.

The woman slapped his hand away again and again and asked him to leave.

He wouldn’t, so she ran out of her apartment.

She told police she then went to stay with a friend for two days because she was “freaked out and scared.”

Police contacted Collins about the incident but his statements were inconsistent and contradictory, according to court documents.

First, he said he had stayed outside the apartment. He then said he had been invited inside but stayed in the kitchen. He then added that he left the kitchen “to get the weed” before he left the apartment.

He also denied being asked to leave by the woman, then admitted he had been asked to leave, but changed his story once again to say that the woman never told him to leave.

He also said “no physical contact happened whatsoever” before an officer could ask about the alleged contact. He then said that a hug had occurred, but said the woman asked for it.

Bail was set at $50,000.

Residential burglary is a felony and conviction carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail and a $20,000 fine.