Detectives are hunting for an illegal Honduran immigrant who broke into a home and began touching a 10-year-old girl

David Ovalle:

Pinecrest police said today that Jose Mario Romero, an undocumented Honduran national known to live in the Homestead area, broke into the home on Southwest 104th Street on Jan. 3 about 3:30 a.m.

''He proceeded to the bedroom of a 10-year-old female who was sleeping. He touched her in a lewd and lascivious manner and held her against her will,'' Sgt. Enrique Mulet wrote in a press release.

In the months before the attack, Romero had been hired by the girl's father to do yard work. The father always picked him up at a Cutler Ridge Home Depot.

Mulet and detectives passed out over 300 fliers in the Homestead area. They located a ''distant family'' member who provided a photo.

Romero ''has very little ties here,'' Mulet said. He is believed to be between 28 and 32 years old, and about 5-foot-10.

He was last seen, police believe, at a Sedano's Market on U.S.-1 and Southwest 312 Street.

Anyone with information on Romero can call Pinecrest Police at 305-234-2100 or Miami-Dade CrimeStoppers at 305-471-TIPS.

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