Man, 45, Charged After Women's Swimwear, Target Fitting Room Found 'Covered' In Semen: New Lenox PD

NEW LENOX, IL — A Peotone man was charged with disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property, after police allege he covered the walls of a Target fitting room and women's swimwear from the store in semen, according to police reports.

Police were called Dec. 31 at 12:15 p.m. to the New Lenox Target store, 2370 E. Lincoln Highway, for a report of criminal damage to property.

An employee told police that they had seen a man take women's swimwear into the fitting room, and exit 10 minutes later. When the man left, an employee went into the fitting room he was using, and found the swimwear he had brought into the room and also the walls were "covered" in a bodily fluid. The fluid was determined to be ejaculate, police confirmed.

Due to the contamination of the swimwear, they could not be sold and were thrown away. New Lenox detectives were able to identify the man as Luke Wetzel, 45, of Peotone. Wetzel admitted to taking the swimwear into the fitting room, but denied releasing bodily fluid in the room.

Wetzel was taken into custody and transported to the New Lenox Police Department, where he was processed and released.