Woman wakes up to strange man shouting in her shower

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA — A woman in Scottsdale, Arizona woke up to find a stranger in her shower and shouting.  Even more unsettling, the police drove him there.

"His clothes were scattered across my house. He was in my master bedroom while I was sleeping. And I didn't hear anything until he started screaming in my bathroom," says the woman.

It happened the Sunday after Thanksgiving, when she and her two daughters were asleep upstairs.

A footprint on the front door showing how the man kicked his way inside.

"He left blood on the walls. He tore out the plumbing in the shower. He ripped off the shower rod."

The woman hid with her daughters in a bedroom and called 9-1-1.

Police arrested Scott Alan Lamarsh in nothing but a towel.  Officers had been with the 50-year-old earlier that night.

, he was drunk and got into a fight.  Police gave him a courtesy ride home, but drove away before he went inside.

They later found out he actually lived here-- but it was a few years ago.

"I definitely feel like, if you're in a bar fight, and you have a record of being a violent person, you would make sure that they got into their home safely if you're giving them a ride home from a violent incident," says the woman who lives there now.

She says officers apologized to her after the incident.  Now she just hopes something like this never happens to anyone else.

"I mean, I don't even feel safe. We have trouble sleeping now."

Those court documents also say that when police asked Lamarsh why he broke in to the home he said it was one of those things where "you still feel like it's your home after losing everything."

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