A Hialeah man with cocaine, a napkin and a black t-shirt arrested as an exhibitionist
A Hialeah man was arrested on charges of exposing himself after a double-exposure Wednesday night, Davie police said.
That’s why Antonio Rodriguez, 45, faces two counts of exposing sex organs in public and two counts of burglary without a weapon. After a half-mile, 50 mph chase up Davie Road, the arrest report says, officers caught Rodriguez with his zipper down, a napkin in his left pocket, a wallet in his right pocket and .25 grams of cocaine in that wallet.
The alleged $13.75 (Miami street value) of cocaine got Rodriguez cocaine possession added to fleeing from law enforcement.
For two months, the arrest report said, a man in a black mask and gray shorts had been showing too much of himself to women, then running away. He’d been doing this in the general area of the Amli Toscana Place apartments, from which two calls came Wednesday night in the 11 p.m. hour. Police set up a perimeter.
The first woman police spoke with said she was about to go into her home when, out of the corner of an eye, she saw her front gate move. She turned to see a man with a black hoodie, gray shorts and a black T-shirt covering most of his face (but not his “light eyes”). He took out his penis and began “manipulating it in a sexual and indecent manner.”
She screamed, went inside and dialed 911. Her call got answered before that of a neighbor, who called the police’s non-emergency line a half-hour earlier. She said a man who had knocked loudly at her front door waited until she looked out her front window, reached for his groin with both hands and “began to make a masturbating motion.”
She didn’t see his genitals, the report said, but saw enough to say Rodriguez was the man when police showed him to her after his capture. Her neighbor said the same.
Rodriguez’s felony record doesn’t include sex crimes, but does include did 14 months in a Florida prison over 2015 and 2016 for grand theft auto.
This story was originally published June 25, 2020 at 12:09 PM.
