Parolee released early due to COVID-19 breaks into house, threatens woman with knife, police say

 A man recently released from a halfway house early because of concerns over the spread of COVID-19 has been charged with breaking into a random home, tying up a woman at knifepoint and threatening to kill her.

The terrifying incident happened March 19 in American Fork.

Joshua J. Haskell, 42, of American Fork, “forcibly entered a home ... (and) using a large, serrated knife, he threatened the homeowner and tied her up with shoelaces,” according to charging documents.

The woman told police that she was sleeping when she woke up to the sound of creaking stairs and discovered a man she had never seen before standing in her room holding a knife “raised toward his head with the knife pointing down,” according to a police affidavit.

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