March 6 (UPI) -- A Cincinnati woman who has lived in her apartment for less than a month said a raccoon has been using a hole in the roof to invade her home every day for over a week.
Alexus Hubbard said she first started hearing unusual noises in her ceiling on Feb. 20, and on March 1 she captured video of an intruding raccoon entering her Westwood apartment through a hole in a kitchen cupboard.
She said the raccoon has since been entering her home every day, often bringing in trash from outside and leaving its bodily waste in the living room. She said the animal is apparently getting into the building through a hole in the roof.
Hubbard said she is especially concerned for her son, who has cerebral palsy.
"He can't walk," Hubbard told WXIX-TV. "His main method of transportation is crawling. He is not able to go around his own house at all because it's unsafe for him. I don't know what kind of biohazards are on the floor."
Hubbard said her landlord, Savin Holdings LLC, placed a trap for the raccoon Thursday night.
Authorities in Virginia recently identified another raccoon as the perpetrator in a string of break-ins at a strip mall in Hanover. The raccoon, which was found passed out drunk on the bathroom floor at ABC Liquors on Black Friday last year, was also blamed for previous break-ins at a neighboring karate studio and a DMV office.
