Man arrested for indecent exposure in bookstore
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Andrew Christopher Dudley, 54, was arrested yesterday and charged with indecent exposure after allegedly walking around the 2nd & Charles bookstore on May 3 while masturbating.
The store manager called 911 after the suspect left the store, and a Gainesville Police Department Officer responded. The manager said that the suspect had been seen masturbating in the children’s section of the store.
The officer reported that surveillance video showed the suspect “ostentatiously” masturbating while following an adult woman around the store. The video reportedly showed the suspect walking through the children’s section more than once while masturbating, with two children in the area.
The officer determined from the video that the suspect might be Dudley, went to his address, and showed two neighbors the store video and Dudley’s driver’s license photo. Both neighbors reportedly confirmed that both photos were of Dudley and confirmed that he lived in a neighboring apartment.
Dudley has one local felony conviction (non-violent) and two local misdemeanor convictions (none violent); his last local arrest was in 2015. He is currently being held without bail.
Articles about arrests are based on reports from law enforcement agencies. The charges listed are taken from the arrest report and/or court records and are only accusations. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Jail is not the right place. What happen to all of this “talk” about mental health services.
Its a crime to masturbate in public. The court can order a mental evaluation. If he is found to be mentally ill, he should indeed be held in an asylum with other chronic masturbators. And if you really want to help, you are probably qualified to be the cleaning lady.
Wendy I can guarantee you that if this man comes over to your house and starts jacking off in front of your kids, you would be calling the police, not a counselor. At least I sure hope you would.
I am totally shocked by an item mentioned in this article.
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There are still bookstores?
Goes from thief to pervert.
Gee, a weenie waver. The most important happening in GNV today. Snicker snicker.
And held without bail, too. That’ll show those those violent felons we slap on the wrist.
👉🏼 Any bets he was connected to taxpayer-subsidized disGRACE, or the Kampus Inn, Sunshine Inn nearby?
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Does this qualify as an appropriate use of 911? I’m genuinely curious. The rules are a bit fuzzy.
I’ve called 911 only a couple of times. I called 911 when I had to refuse a severely drunk person alcohol on a July 4 weekend and he tore out of the parking lot and onto the interstate. I also called 911 when a drunk man stumbled, fell down, and passed out in the middle of a road downtown. But when a driver reeking of alcohol got stuck trying to turn his semi tractor (no trailer) around in the driveway of a gated community and got stuck on the median and damaged the gate controls, blocking the exit, I considered that a non-emergency call because there was no imminent threat. And I called the non-emergency number for a disturbed woman wandering in my community, yelling at nothing and tossing personal belongings into yards, because she seemed to need some mental health assistance but didn’t seem in any immediate danger of hurting herself or anyone else.
In the case above, the man isn’t reported to have hurt anyone, and had already left the bookstore before the manager called 911. Obviously the man needed to be caught and punished, but it seems like any potential emergency situation had already passed by then, and that’s what the non-emergency number is for.
No need to punish the manager for a genuine mistake, but I think it could be helpful to shore up the definitions of appropriate and inappropriate uses of 911 so that genuine emergency calls aren’t held up by non-emergencies. It’s not a number to call just because you’re disturbed by someone’s behavior.
Eh, guy committed a crime, seems ok. I’ve heard of far far worse uses of 911 line.
I didn’t ask if there were worse uses. I asked if it was appropriate. And what seems okay to you may not be what the law is. If you don’t know, that’s fine.
It sounds like the manager was afraid for him to see her/him calling the police so she/he waited until he was out of the store. Reporting a felony and sex crime against multiple children is likely a judicious use of 911.
Driving any vehicle drunk is a crime, Michael. That driver could have killed others. That’s a crime that deserves to be reported to 911.
Thank you for allowing me to clarify.
That’s why I called 911 about the driver that I saw actually driving drunk. No clarification needed on that point, but thanks. A GPD officer did come and investigate the driver who was stuck but only smelled of alcohol, and he talked to the driver and then simply left.
Obviously dude is a sick SOB! I would have called the cops WHILE he was in the store, not after he left.
I also would have called 911 while he was in the store. That’s why I asked if it was appropriate to call 911 instead of the non-emergency number AFTER he left the store, which resulted in taking three weeks to find the guy. But at least a couple of people think it’s appropriate to call 911 whenever.
Sicko.