Whiskey, cigarettes and ‘sexual exhibitionist’ in Vero Beach

VERO BEACH — For the record, you can’t toodle around a parking lot with your private parts on display for the whole world to see.

That, more or less, is what James Umhoefer, 62, stands accused of Jan. 19 in Vero Beach, according to an arrest affidavit.

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A Vero Beach police officer was sent at 11:40 a.m. to an address in the 700 block of 17th Street for a “sexual exhibitionist,” the affidavit states.

Police were told a man in the parking lot was displaying his private area.

The typical man in a parking lot usually does not display his appendage.

Investigators saw a man later identified as Umhoefer with his pants down.

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At Umhoefer’s feet was a bag with two bottles of Black Velvet Canadian whiskey and a carton of Pall Mall menthol cigarettes.

Umhoefer said he had no medical problems and hadn’t been imbibing.

“When asked to pull his pants up he had trouble doing so and required assistance,” the affidavit states. “Later during our encounter his pants fell again.”

Another witness reported she saw Umhoefer with his private part out. She moved her car, and said he started to follow her.

Umhoefer, of the 600 block of 15th Place in Vero Beach, was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge.

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