Felony charges are expected to be filed Tuesday against a 29-year-old probationer suspected of confronting a Corona family with a knife and forcing her way inside their apartment to search for someone who didn't live there.
Helene Nicole Littlewiggins of Corona was arrested and booked into the Robert Presley Jail in Riverside on Thursday night on suspicion of first- degree burglary and exhibiting a deadly weapon in a threatening manner.
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Littlewiggins is being held in lieu of $35,000 bail. Her case was under review Monday by the Riverside County District Attorney's Office.
According to the Corona Police Department, shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday, the suspect allegedly banged on the door of a Corona couple's apartment.
The victims were relaxing with their infant daughter and opened the door to find Littlewiggins standing at the entrance with a "large kitchen knife," which she raised threateningly, police Lt. Gary Griffitts alleged.
He said that the suspect entered the apartment, asking to see "an individual who didn't live at the residence."
She then proceeded to search the property without permission, despite the occupants telling her that the person she wanted wasn't there, according to the lieutenant.
"The (suspect) continued to search every room in the apartment before leaving," Griffitts said.
The victims immediately called 911, and patrol officers initiated a search of he neighborhood, without finding the suspect, according to the police spokesman.
Around the same time the following day, while the residents were out, they received a security camera notification that a person was loitering outside their apartment, and the images that showed up via mobile phone revealed it was the same suspect, police said.
Patrol officers went to the apartment, but Littlewiggins was gone, Griffitts said. However, neighbors provided a description of her car, which was spotted a half-hour later in the area of East Sixth Street and Grand Boulevard, where officers stopped the suspect.
"Officers determined that she was on probation for a case out of San Bernardino County," Griffitts said.
They detained Littlewiggins and conduced a probation compliance check at her nearby apartment, where they located "clothing that matched what the suspect had been wearing the day before," the lieutenant said.
Littlewiggins was taken into custody without incident.
Information on her case in San Bernardino County was not available, and it was unknown whether she had any prior convictions in Riverside County.
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