POMPANO BEACH, Fla. – A Fort Lauderdale man is facing multiple felony charges after Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies accused him of sexually battering a co-worker in the cooler of a Pompano Beach business.
A BSO spokesperson said Wednesday that the “heinous crime” happened Sunday morning in the 1800 block of East Atlantic Boulevard.
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According to an arrest warrant, Tresel Marquese Huffman, 25, followed his co-worker into a cooler and started to touch her buttocks. They were the only two people in the store at the time.
After she told him to “get away,” Huffman “forcibly” pushed the victim onto a freezer door, a detective wrote.
The warrant states the victim fought as Huffman began to pull up the woman’s shirt and grabbed her breast, while telling her she was “so attractive” and “it’s not going to take long.”
He then put his arm around the victim’s neck and choked her, then pulled his and her pants down, deputies said.
The attack only stopped because Huffman couldn’t get an erection, the warrant states. The woman ran across the street to call police.
Deputies said they reviewed surveillance video, which showed Huffman placing a box in front of a camera pointed towards the cooler. The store’s general manager told detectives that all employees are aware that blocking cameras is strictly prohibited.
The general manager also brought Huffman back to the business.
Huffman was “inconsistent” in his police interview, according to the warrant. The BSO detective wrote that he claimed the encounter was consensual and that “hasn’t touched a box in a month.”
He then said he “moves boxes on different occasions” after being told he was seen on camera putting the box in front of it, the warrant states.
Huffman was arrested Sunday and was being held without bond in the North Broward Bureau jail facility on charges of sexual battery, kidnapping, false imprisonment and battery by strangulation.