Will Greenlee

will.greenlee@tcpalm.com

VERO BEACH — People often blame cats for getting their tongue.

Hervey Hernandez, 53, blamed them for something else — breaking a window in Vero Beach, according to an arrest affidavit.

The case began about 2 a.m. on March 22 when Vero Beach police went to an address on Sandpiper Lane for a disturbance.

A woman told police that Hernandez returned to the residence, yelling and caterwauling and knocking on the front door and windows.

She said Hernandez had been living there for seven months.

Police earlier spoke to Hernandez about another disturbance at the same place. Evidently, Hernandez’s actions were not the cat’s meow, and he agreed to leave.

But Hernandez apparently did not behave purrfectly because the victim told police he busted out the window trying to get inside.

Hernandez, who smelled of booze, denied breaking the window.

He said the victim’s 11 cats did it.

Hernandez, of the 900 block of Sandpiper Lane in Vero Beach, was arrested on a disorderly intoxication charge and taken not to the pound but to the Indian River County jail.