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A mail carrier admitted to masturbating inside a Pasadena woman's home as she urged him to leave, detectives said in court documents.

Byron Milton, 30, worked for the United States Postal Service in early March when he allegedly walked into a woman's apartment in the 2700 block of Lafferty, which is on his mail route. He and the woman had previous encounters and were acquaintances, so she let him in, detectives said in court documents.

The woman works as a masseuse. Milton allegedly asked for a massage that day, but the woman told him he needed to make an appointment instead.

Milton then asked to use the restroom, and the woman obliged, court documents stated.

Milton then walked out of the bathroom with his pants down, claiming that his groin was in pain, according to court documents. The woman gave Milton medicated patches for the pain and sent him off to the restroom again so he could apply them himself, detectives said.

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A few minutes later, Milton came out of the restroom and allegedly exposed himself, detectives said. The woman immediately told Milton to leave, but he went back in the restroom instead, detectives said.

She tried asking him to leave again and then asked what was taking him so long to leave. Milton told her to come see what was taking him so long, so she went to the bathroom and found him allegedly masturbating, detectives said.

She repeatedly asked him to stop masturbating and leave her apartment, but he refused, police said. When he was finished, he left the apartment looking "nervous," the woman told police.

Investigators with the Office of Inspector General, which investigates all sorts of crimes involving the USPS, interviewed Milton, who allegedly admitted to everything. He told police that he was in his postal worker uniform when he went to the woman's apartment but was not working that day.

He was charged with misdemeanor indecent exposure, court records show.

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