Florida man says he stole pool floats to keep from raping women

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The burglary that led to his arrest happened on June 5 when police say Monnin cut the pool screen to get onto the deck of a home in Palm Bay. Police stopped Monnin “as a suspicious person” who was riding his bicycle on a city street Thursday around 1:25 a.m. They say he had a white garbage bag full of what Monnin identified as deflated pool floats.

Monnin took officers to a vacant house where he allegedly stored floats. About 75 of them were found, including ones that the June 5 victim described. These were one long white float and one long blue float.

The “defendant stated that he sexually gratifies himself with the pool floats instead of raping women,” the arrest report read.

Monnin was charged with burglary of an occupied dwelling, petit theft of property less than $300 and criminal mischief of $200 or less.

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