PARKLAND, Fla. – A 54-year-old man who was arrested in Miami-Dade County almost 32 years ago and who spent three decades in jail, is behind bars again. According to Broward Sheriff’s Office, Antonio Dolls broke into a woman’s home in Parkland and sexually assaulted her last Monday.
On Friday, sheriff’s deputies arrested Dolls. He had just been released from prison in March for armed burglary in Miami-Dade County and was living in Boca Raton, according to the arrest report.
“This individual is a career criminal,” said Sheriff Gregory Tony, adding that Doll was out on probation . . . This is the consequence of someone out who perhaps should stay in custody,” said Tony.
(See the BSO press conference below)
According to a BSO report from the incident, which happened on Monday, “She arrived home from work. While walking into the family room, she was hit and thrown on the floor by an unknown male . . . using a sharp object, he forced the victim to a bedroom where he sexually battered her. Moments later, the subject ransacked her bedroom.”
The arrest report says that the victim told investigators she left her at 7:15 a.m. leaving it “secured.” At 4:15 p.m., she came home and entered through the garage door of the inside of the house. She recalled thinking that it seemed odd that her house was warm and then that her air conditioning was off.” The victim told investigators that the suspect told her, “I’ll kill you, you’ll bleed out.”
Detectives later released video of the attacker arriving with a bicycle hoping that the public would help identify the suspect.
Through an investigation, deputies named Doll as the suspect. He was arrested in North Miami before being booked into the Broward County jail.
Tony said he wanted to calm the community. “This is not something that we see as a pattern or a serial rapist or that he did this a multitude of times over a span of several days or weeks. Let me just put that to rest. It does not mitigate the severity of what he did . . . but we don’t need the community being unnecessarily alarmed thinking that there are more potential victims to come something that we missed,” said Tony.
There were no indicators that there was a personal relationship of any kind between Doll and the victim. “This appeared to be something that took place where the suspect, a career burglar, knows how to case a house, decided to break into that home and didn’t leave it at that. One thing about breaking into a home and stealing someone’s property, you know, those things can be recovered, when you steal someone’s humanity and dignity that’s a burden that the victim is going to carry forever.”
Doll faces multiple criminal charges including aggravated assault with a weapon, burglary, grand theft, possession of a weapon by a violent career criminal, among other charges.
Doll remain behind bars without the possibility of bail.