East Idaho man charged with felonies after car crash. He was naked when arrested

A man who was arrested naked one week ago after deputies say he crashed his car in the water before breaking into a nearby home has been charged with a pair of felonies: malicious injury to property and burglary.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, on Oct. 17 at around 8:30 a.m., a deputy responded to the area of 433 North 4200 East in Rigby to a report of a Honda Civic that was fully submerged in water. It appeared the vehicle had been in the water for some time, documents said.

Multiple emergency personnel arrived to help. There was nobody inside the vehicle. Deputies ran the plates and found that the vehicle was registered to a 61-year-old man.

“I walked down to the southeast side of the dry bed and observed tire tracks through the brush and into the dry bed,” a deputy wrote.

Around this time, Tucker Jorgensen told EastIdahoNews.com he went to his neighbor’s home next to the dry bed. Jorgensen recently bought a lot on the other side of the house and wanted to check on some things.

“My neighbor is out of town, but I texted him, and he said it was fine if I went into his backyard,” Jorgensen told EastIdahoNews.com in an interview last week. “As I went to leave his yard, I noticed the garage door to my neighbor’s shed was open.”

Jorgensen told investigators about the open door.

According to documents, deputies went to the home and found that the side window next to the front door was broken out and a gardening tool was lying on the front porch. The door was closed, but it appeared as if someone had entered the home by breaking the glass out with the gardening tool and reaching in to unlock the door, according to documents. Shattered glass was all over the front porch.

Deputies surrounded the perimeter around the house. A Jefferson County sheriff’s K9 unit was deployed and gave several commands to whoever was in the house to make themselves known, or they would be bitten by the K9, documents said.

“After several commands, I could hear someone state they were there and coming out. I gave commands to come out with hands up. I saw movement from the second story. I observed a naked older man ... was approaching the stairway slowly with his hands up,” documents said.

The man walked down the stairs and was taken to a patrol vehicle.

A deputy said he observed a pair of wet socks in the living room on a piece of furniture and clothing in the upstairs bathroom on the floor.