Crime & Safety

Man Walked Around Woodman's Exposing Himself For 2 Hours: Report

Police in Waukesha say a man was arrested for walking around Woodman's for two hours exposing himself to fellow customers.

Police said the man was arrested on suspicion of lewd and lascivious behavior and transported to the Waukesha County Jail.
Police said the man was arrested on suspicion of lewd and lascivious behavior and transported to the Waukesha County Jail. (Image Via Google Street Map)

WAUKESHA, WI — Authorities in Waukesha say they've arrested a 58-year-old man after he reportedly walked around the Woodman's grocery store with his penis exposed for more than two hours.

According to Waukesha Police reports, officers responded to the Waukesha Woodman's at just after 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 25 to deal with the situation after a customer called police, saying that the man, later identified as Byron J. Oakes, exposed himself to the customer three times during the same shopping trip.

When police arrived, they saw what the customer saw - Oakes exposing himself just above waistband-level.

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Police said he was arrested on suspicion of lewd and lascivious behavior and transported to the Waukesha County Jail.

Waukesha Police told Patch that Oakes "has a criminal history of doing this type of behavior and confessed he had been walking around the store that way for over two hours."

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Court records showed that Oakes has been charged with similar crimes. Records show that he was convicted of lewd and lascivious behavior in Rock County in 2010, in Walworth County in 2005, and also in Walworth County in 2001.

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