Cross-dresser with meth breaks into Ozarks home (again) for ‘private acts,’ police say

A man broke into an Ozarks home in women’s clothing to “conduct personal private acts upon himself,” police said, and it wasn’t his first time.

Joshua Long, 37, wore makeup, a wig and women’s clothing Nov. 26 while breaking into an Ozark County home near the Arkansas border, according to court records.

Investigators found an unknown substance on the carpet and soiled toilet paper on the floors and in the toilet.

Numerous items were found in the handyman’s pickup that investigators believed were used in the commission of his “private acts.”

Investigators also found a small bag of methamphetamine in Long’s vehicle, police said. Long said he’d forgotten about the stash.

When asked about the women’s underwear and a women’s coat left in the home, Long admitted they were his and that he forgot to retrieve them.

He said he removed an air conditioner unit from a window to use it as “leverage during his private acts,” police said.

Long has been charged with second-degree burglary and possession of methamphetamine, both felonies that carry a maximum sentence of 10 years.

He pleaded not guilty, and his bond was set at $5,000, according to court records.

This isn’t Long’s first such run-in with the law.

The Baxter Bulletin reported Long pleaded guilty last month to breaking into an Arkansas home. A Gassville, Ark., couple returned home and found a man dressed in a wig and wearing “black women’s panties and a black bra with pink tassels, stumbling through their home,” according to The Bulletin.

Police found an iPhone registered to Long in the home.

Long’s wife contacted police to report her husband’s “suspicious behavior” three days before he broke into the Gassville home, according to The Bulletin.

Long’s wife said her husband had been acting “weird” and she had found sexual items around their home.

Among the items the wife said she found: teen deodorant, wigs, masks, women’s underwear and “sex aids too graphic to describe,” The Bulletin reported.

She also broke into his shop, which she described as a porn studio with mirrors, cameras and the sex aids.

A treehouse built for their children also contained porn and “sex aids,” the wife said.

Long was sentenced to five years of probation for the incident in Gassville, The Bulletin reported.

This story was originally published December 19, 2017 at 3:51 PM with the headline "Cross-dresser with meth breaks into Ozarks home (again) for ‘private acts,’ police say."