NAPLES

A man suspected of attempting to rob rooms at a Naples hotel was arrested on Tuesday.

At approximately 3:15 p.m., according to a Naples Police Department arrest report, officers attended the Naples Hyatt House at 1345 5th Ave. S. after reporting that a stranger was trying to break into the rooms from the balcony.

The hotel manager told officers the suspect had dove into the bushes closest to 5th Avenue South before officers arrived after the manager spotted him on the balcony of a room that was not was not his. During the search, officers found the suspect on the sidewalk next to the Hyatt property, parallel to 5th Avenue South, lying flat on his back in an attempt to hide from hotel management and officers .

Officers asked Naples man Christopher Cabrera, 37, what he was doing on the property, and Cabrera said he was a firefighter who had to test the emergency phone near the pool. He then said he was on parole for robbing a Wells Fargo bank, continuing to make nonsensical claims about things like his need to locate a little note addressed to him on the bottom of the firefighters’ phone. The NPD dispatch confirmed that Cabrera was on parole for a robbery.

A guest reported seeing Cabrera jumping onto a bedroom balcony. When she asked him why he was there, he pretended it was his bedroom, laughed awkwardly as he looked at the floor, then said he was “doing military stuff” before jumping onto the other balcony on closer.

Cabrera is being held in the Collier County Jail and faces charges of unarmed burglary of an unoccupied dwelling and parole violation.

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