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Nude driver's conduct distracting
(AP)
Updated: 2007-09-06 15:14
ANGOLA, Ind. -- A naked man driving along the Indiana Toll Road was
arrested and charged because his lewd conduct distracted other motorists,
police said.
The 37-year-old Chicago man was traveling east to Ohio to visit his
mother, police said. He was nude and had petroleum jelly on his hands
when a state trooper pulled him over about 10 miles from the Ohio line
Wednesday, police said.
The man, who told police he was comfortable driving in the nude, was
charged with misdemeanor indecent exposure, punishable by up to a year in
jail.
The trooper, Al Martinez, a four-year veteran of the Indiana State
Police, said he walked up to the passenger side of the SUV and saw that
the man had dropped a T-shirt across his midsection. Other motorists had
called police about the driver, with several calls from truckers who
could see into the front seat of the SUV.
Martinez made the man put his clothes back on before handcuffing him and
putting him in the back of the squad car.
The man was released Thursday from the Steuben County Jail on $1,000 bond.
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