"We were running almost four people per day." "I was stunned," Chitwood said of the number of men arrested. And one man was arrested at Doris Leeper Spruce Creek Preserve in Port Orange. In addition, two men were caught at Green Springs Park in Deltona and at Lake Beresford Park in DeLand. Three other men were also arrested there. He was eventually arrested and charged with battery and resisting an officer without violence, along with lewd and lascivious activity. Coker, who had been charged in 2006 with exposure of a sexual organ in a vulgar manner, tried leaving and fighting off the deputy, the report said. "It's a bunch of dirty men who their thrill is exposing themselves to other men," he said.Īt Sleepy Hollow Park in New Smyrna Beach, 64-year-old Bernard Coker told an undercover deputy that he was there to "play," and then he reached for the undercover deputy's groin and pulled the deputy towards him, according to a police report.
The small wooded area with a swing set and not much else was vacant Saturday.Ĭhitwood said that the men were not using any code words or signals to indicate to each other, and that most of the men were "openly exposing themselves and pleasuring themselves" in broad daylight or in the early evening hours at the parks.
Riverbend Park off Airport Road in Ormond Beach saw eight men arrested there, the most at any of the parks. He was arrested and charged with indecent exposure in public, according to a police report. Warner, of Union Grove, North Carolina, then pulled out his genitalia, according to the police report. The men arrested ranged in age from 28 to 78, though the majority were middle-aged or older, Chitwood said.Īmong those arrested was 75-year-old Robert Warner, who advised an undercover deputy at Bicentennial Park in Ormond Beach that he ought to be careful because he had heard "about guys being arrested" on the west side of the county.