Naked Man Found in Crawl Space Under Elderly Woman's Home, Family Suspects He Was Living There for Months: Reports

Mar. 15, 2025

A man was found living under an elderly woman’s home in California.Photo:CBS News Los Angeles

CBS News Los Angeles

A naked man found living under an elderly woman’s home in California has reportedly been arrested.

On Thursday, Nov. 7, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) came across the man in question in the crawl space underneath the El Sereno property after the woman, thought to be in her early ’90s, kept hearing strange noises, perNBC News,KCAL NewsandKTLA.

It reportedly took officers several hours to get the man out, the woman’s grandson told KCAL News. The outlet reported the man finally surrendered around 4:30 a.m. local time on Friday morning after police used gas.

Officers found blankets and food under the property when they discovered the man, per the outlet.

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The woman’s son-in-law, Ricardo Silva, said the noises they had heard for weeks were “usually late at night, and we just chucked it off to animals being under the house,” per NBC News.

According to NBC News and KTLA, the man has since been identified as Issac Betancourt.

It’s not clear how long Betancourt had been living under the elderly woman’s home, but her family suspect he may have been there for up to six months, NBC News reported.

The outlet stated Betancourt was now facing charges including trespassing.

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According to KTLA, the man was not for moving initially from the crawl space and police had to use “police dogs and rubber bullets without success,” before tear gas was eventually used.

“He refused to leave. He wasn’t scared of the dogs, and the first two attempts at gas didn’t fish him out,” Silva added of the man, according to NBC News.

source: people.com