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SANFORD, Fla. — Sanford Police have arrested 22-year-old Angel Joseph Davis for indecent exposure of sexual organs.
On Tuesday, Dec. 17, SPD responded to reports of a prowler that was observed looking into a home and exposing themselves in the area of 20th Street and Mellonville Avenue.
We are relieved to announce this arrest. We want our community to feel safe in their homes as we prepare for holiday celebrations. Thank you to our citizens that had surveillance cameras, and quickly came forward to help us identify, and remove this predator from our community,” said Deputy Chief Trekelle Perkins.
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Sanford police are asking the public to come forward with any reports or surveillance videos of a Peeping Tom roaming neighborhoods.
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Police said the community has come together on Sanford 327, a Facebook forum, and has helped aid in their investigation of possible incidents with a prowler.
“So, we’ve recently been made aware of a number of instances that have occurred within the last, at minimum a week or so in the area on the east side of the city,” said Sanford police PIO Bianca Gillett. “Incidents involving, you know, at a minimum a suspicious person kind of around residences, possibly looking in windows.”
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On Tuesday night, police confirmed two reports of what would be considered a Peeping Tom prowler activity that is currently being investigated.
“Some of the posts have suggested that he’s doing inappropriate behavior in addition to looking through windows,” Gillett said. “Yes, unfortunately, last night the instances that were reported did raise to that prowler, indecent exposure type situation.”
Activity has been reported in the Mellonville area, 20th Street, Park Street, and 17th Street, police said.
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Police are asking anyone with a similar encounter, a suspicious person around their house, or window in the last week or even two, to contact the Sanford Police Department.
Gillett added that reporting it on Facebook is not the same as contacting the police department and giving them the details.
“So, we again want to work with our community, our public, provide us that information, those instances so we can have accurate information,” Gillett said.
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