AN ALLEGED cross-dressing porter thought he had hit the jackpot with a resident who owns a trendy lingerie line - until she caught him with his pants down in her Manhattan apartment.

BodyRock Sport owner Kelly Dooley, 28, said she was stunned to find building worker Hector Solano half-naked - and crouching over one of her black, nylon, thong bodysuits - inside her luxury loft on Friday, the New York Post reported.

"He said he likes to wear women's clothes," she told the Post.

But Ms Dooley said that while Mr Solano, 25, portrayed himself as a macho guy from the Bronx at work, "He's a complete sissy."

He acted like he was "afraid of me. His hands are up, and he's begging me, 'Please don't tell,'" Ms Dooley said.

The bizarre incident unfolded when Ms Dooley - whose clients include Reebok Sports Club, LA Sports Club and lingerie boutiques - returned to her apartment in the Murray Hill neighbourhood of Manhattan after a business meeting.

She told police that she stepped into her apartment from a private elevator and saw an arm move fast in front of her.

She thought it was her fiance, Andrew, playing a joke on her.

"I'm like, 'Andrew, I see you!'"MsDooley recalled saying.

But, "I knew something was wrong," she said, noting that the lights were off.

"I opened the [bathroom] door, and Hector is crouching down with his boxer-briefs on and a white Hanes crewneck shirt, and he's pulling up his cargo shorts," Dooley said.

Mr Solano was charged with sexually motivated burglary and released after posting $6,000 bail.

Read more about woman catches porter trying on lingerie at the New York Post.

