By Acting Lieutenant Tom Fuhrmann, Antioch Police Investigations 
 
 
 
 On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Antioch Police Officers responded to the 4900 block of Ridgeview Drive on the report of a burglary in progress. The caller told police she had been at home holding her baby, her second child, when she saw a man enter the house through an unlocked door. The woman fled the home — baby in tow — but realized she had left her 4-year-old girl, in the house, police said. The four-year-old daughter told her mother, who then alerted the officers that the intruder was hiding in the little girl’s bedroom closet. The woman relayed that information to police who found the man, later identified as Demaria Lopez, a 21-year-old transient, exactly where the girl said he was, police said. Officers briefly struggled with Lopez when he failed to comply with their commands, police said. But he was eventually taken into custody without injury and transported to the Martinez Detention Facility where he was booked on suspicion of burglary and resisting arrest.
– What should this 4-year-old be when she grows up? Our suggestion: police officer. The San Francisco Chronicle has the initially frightening story of woman who ran from her Antioch, Calif., home after seeing a man come inside through an unlocked door. She had her baby in her arms—but had left the 4-year-old inside. Police arrived and found the girl unharmed, but they were unable to locate the reported intruder ... until the child told her mother exactly where he was. Police did indeed find the man hiding inside the girl's closet, as the child had said. Following a short struggle, 21-year-old Demaria Lopez was arrested, the Antioch Herald reports. He faces charges of attempted burglary and resisting arrest.