ORLANDO, Fla. -- A registered sex offender was arrested late Monday night on suspicion of using a ladder to try to break into an Orlando apartment where two women live.

Justin Patrick Santuci, 31, faces charges of loitering or prowling and burglary of an occupied structure.

Santuci is a registered sex offender convicted of lewd or lascivious exhibition on a victim under the age of 16 in Putnam County.

One of the women living in the Promenade Crossings apartment, located near Colonial Drive and Bennett Road, is a 20-year-old student at Valencia Community College and the other is a 19-year-old cosmetology student.

According to Orlando police, the women said that as they were going to bed Monday night, they heard a bump outside their apartment window, which is located on the second floor of the building. One of the women looked outside the window and saw a man, later identified as Santuci, climbing a ladder onto her second-floor patio, police said.

"I did what anyone does when they think they hear something outside. I cracked the window and I was like, oh my God. I couldn’t believe it," Lindsey Cascadden said.

Cascadden and her roommate Juliene Botticello said they saw Santuci staring back at them when they looked outside.

The balcony is not shared or joined to any other and is only accessible through the apartment, according to police.

"For a good two seconds, he was there staring at me, like, two feet from me," Cascadden said.

Santuci noticed he was spotted and jumped to the ground, folded up the ladder and walked away, police said.

An officer located a man matching Santuci's description and one of the women positively identified him, police said.

Santuci said he was staying at his mother's apartment, which is located on the other end of the building from the women's apartment, according to police. A ladder was found inside Santuci's mother's apartment, and it was identified the one being used in the attempted break-in, police said.

Cascadden and Botticello said they no longer feel safe in their apartment and they are looking for a new place to live.

Police said Santuci did not register the complex as his new address, as required under the sex offender registry. A judge revoked his bond on Tuesday.