Public Nudity Charged After August Incident At Grocery Store
Public Nudity Charged After August Incident At Grocery Store
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David Slone-dslone@timesuniononline.com
Public Nudity Charged After August Incident At Grocery StoreA Warsaw man was arrested Friday for allegedly flashing his genitals at a grocery store customer in August, but he has denied committing the act.
Parker Allen Nelson, 24, of 307 Eisenhower Pkwy., Warsaw, was arrested and booked into the Kosciusko County Jail at 11:47 a.m. Friday for corrupt business influence, public nudity and probation violation – misdemeanor. His preliminary bond for the corrupt business influence and public nudity charges totaled $1,500, but no bond was set for the probation violation.
Court documents filed Sept. 26 list charges against Nelson as public indecency, a Class A misdemeanor; and public nudity, a Class B misdemeanor.
A probable cause affidavit on the corrupt business influence charge was not available this morning.
On Aug. 18, Warsaw Police officer Chris Brown was dispatched to a grocery store in reference of a man exposing himself to a customer at the store. He spoke with the customer, who said she was in the store when a man exposed his genitals to her, according to court documents.
She said she was in the produce aisle when the incident happened. She said he was staring at her and it made her uncomfortable. He moved around the aisle and she kept an eye on him because he made her uneasy. She said a friend called her on her phone and she asked them to stay on the phone with her just in case something happened.
The customer found the store manager and told her what happened. The manager called dispatch and told them of the situation. As the manager did this, the customer found the man at a store register, checking out. She photographed the man from behind while he made his purchase. When he walked outside, the customer photographed the white SUV he got into and got its license plate number.
The plate returned to Nelson, who Brown knew from previous dealings.
Brown viewed surveillance footage and saw Nelson entering the store. Footage did not show Nelson’s actions while shopping, but did show him checking out at the register.
Brown went to Nelson’s home, and he was wearing the same clothes as those he was wearing in the grocery store.
Brown told Nelson he wanted to talk to him about what happened at the grocery store. He said OK. Brown told him he was accused of showing his genitals to a customer. When asked if he had anything to say about that, he said no. Brown said OK and walked back to his vehicle.
As Brown began to drive away, a woman honked her vehicle horn so he stopped and got out of the vehicle. Nelson was leaning into her passenger-side window as Brown asked what they needed. Nelson walked to the back of the vehicle and asked if there was a video of him committing the act. Brown told him that there was video of him inside the store but not of the act, and Nelson shook his head, court documents state.
Nelson then implied he felt he was being set up. Brown asked Nelson if he saw anyone he knew inside the store and told him he needed to tell him who would try to get him in trouble so he could have all the facts. Brown told Nelson he did not want to falsely charge him if he thought the information was false. Nelson would not give names of people who he thought would set him up.
Nelson said he pleaded guilty to a similar charge in the past, even though he was innocent. Brown told him that pleading guilty meant he did the act in the eyes of the state. Nelson said he knew.
Brown told Nelson that the victim did not know him to Brown’s knowledge and that was why Brown was inclined to believe the victim. Nelson was invited to go to the WPD to give a statement, but he declined.
