Police and prosecutors made more allegations Tuesday against a 20-year-old man suspected in a rash of west-side burglaries, but the man said he was the victim of police harassment.

Prosecutors allege Brian K. Charles broke into two apartments early Monday in the same complex in the 3800 block of Clinton Parkway. A 21-year-old Kansas University student who lives in one of the apartments told police she woke up about 3:30 a.m. to find a man standing in her doorway wearing a light T-shirt, a plaid shirt, and a tan, baggy coat, said Sgt. Mike Pattrick, a police spokesman.

A report from the other incident wasn’t available Tuesday.

At least eight similar incidents happened this summer– most of them in apartments near the KU campus — but Charles hasn’t been charged in any of those. Pattrick said only that they remain under investigation.

To Charles, the charges represent the latest in a string of run-ins with the law. Monday morning, six officers searched for fibers, hair samples and clothing in the duplex where he and his mother live in the 3400 block of Augusta Drive.

Charles and his mother, Avis, claim police have the wrong suspect and have been unfairly targeting him since he first became a suspect in the burglaries in spring 2002.

“My son is not the only black man in Lawrence,” Avis Charles said.

“I live on a nice side of town, so they think ‘Oh, it has to be him,'” Brian Charles told a judge in court Tuesday during a video-conference hearing from the Douglas County Jail.

Police first arrested Charles in May 2002 while staking out a west-side neighborhood near Clinton Parkway and Kasold Drive where there’d been a series of break-ins. One woman reported waking up to find a man with a knife in her bed.

Police say they arrested Charles after they saw him trying to turn a door handle on a town house. Avis Charles suggested Tuesday that her son might have been walking to the nearby Hy-Vee Store, 3504 Clinton Parkway.

Brian Charles was charged with at least four burglaries or attempted burglaries, but the state dropped all charges because a witness was unavailable. Prosecutors refiled the charges this summer, but last month District Judge Jack Murphy ruled there wasn’t enough evidence to link Charles to two of the incidents.

Murphy ordered Charles to stand trial, however, for sexual battery, burglary and attempted burglary in connection with two of the 2002 incidents.

Prosecutor Brad Burke on Tuesday argued that Charles’ bond should be set at $25,000, in part because the new charges are similar to some of the old charges.

“He’s gone out and committed new felonies,” Burke said.

Judge Pro Tem Peggy Kittel, who had to order Charles several times to stop talking, doubled Burke’s request and set bond at $50,000.