Crime & Safety

Pantsless Orland Park Man Stood in Driveway While Kids Walked Past: Cops

The man was wearing a T-shirt but raised his arms above his head and stretched when he saw the kids, police said.

An Orland Park man wearing only a T-shirt stood in his driveway and stretched his arms above his head, exposing his penis to passing children, police said.

The six children, ages 6 to 12, were walking along Robin Hood Drive when they spotted 41-year-old John Caswick “standing in his driveway with only a T-shirt on,” police said.

The children later told an adult that Caswick “looked in the direction of the kids and then raised his hands above his head and stretched his arms to the right and then to the left,” police said. The adult, who is the father of at least one of the children stated that “the kids then advised him that John’s penis was exposed.”

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The children reportedly then ran home.

The father went over to confront Caswick, police said, and “observed John in his driveway standing behind a garbage can.”

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The father “asked John, ‘Are you not wearing pants?’ to which John replied, ‘Get off my property,’” police said. The father “then grabbed the garbage can to move it and John was not wearing any pants or underwear. (He) Stated John’s penis was fully exposed but was not erect. (He) stated that John appeared to be intoxicated.

The father reportedly told the law “that on Halloween John was answering the door in only his underwear and police were called,” and that “John constantly walks out to his mailbox in his underwear.”

The police reportedly went to Caswick’s house but no one answered the door. Officers believed he was at home due to the presence of cold drinks on the patio and a sighting by a neighbor a short time before.

After making “numerous attempts to contact John,” the police obtained a warrant for his arrest. They then staked out his house and took him into custody when he pulled into his driveway.

Caswick explained to the cops that, on the morning he was allegedly standing around without pants, a “friend came over” and “they began drinking Irish whiskey straight from the bottle,” police said.

Caswick “became extremely intoxicated,” police said. “He became so intoxicated that he could not recall his neighbor ... confronting him about his genitals being exposed to their children.”

Caswick “believed that it was very probable that he did not have any pants or underwear on while standing on his driveway,” police said. “John believed that he was naked from the waist down causing his genitals to be exposed to the public.”

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