Terri Sanginiti

The News Journal

A man who reportedly exposed himself to two women joggers over the past year in Brandywine Park surrendered to Wilmington police after tips from the public led to his identity, police said Thursday.

Nicholas Saienni, 29, of the 1400 block of N. Clayton St., was charged Wednesday with two counts of misdemeanor indecent exposure, Cpl. Mark Ivey said.

The most recent incident occurred about 3:35 p.m. Saturday on North Park Drive where a 55-year-old woman jogging through Brandywine Park was flashed by the unidentified man.

According to court records, the man, who was "wearing bright blue sneakers," walked toward the victim on a trail in the park near the 1000 block of North Park Drive and pulled his "shorts up from the bottom further exposing his penis to her."

The jogger told police the man appeared to be strutting as he walked, and she could see his genitals "hanging out the bottom of his jogging shorts" as he neared, according to court documents.

Before fleeing the park to contact police, the victim snapped a picture of the man, which she turned over to police, police said in court records.

After police made the photo public, they received numerous tips from the public identifying the flasher dressed in running attire as Saienni, Ivey said.

Court records said that in addition to the tips from the public, a relative of Saienni saw the photo and positively identified it as him.

Investigators then contacted him and he turned himself in to authorities in the company of his attorney.

Further investigation linked Saienni to a similar unsolved incident that occurred in the same park Sept. 25.

In that case, a 37-year-old woman who happened to be an off-duty state trooper, was jogging through the park in the 1600 block of South Park Drive when she spotted a man sitting on a bench masturbating in a pavilion south of the jogging path, police said in court records.

When the woman approached and identified herself as a police officer, the man "stood up, ejaculated on the ground and fled the area southbound out of the park," according to court records.

Saienni's Twitter profile describes him as a "fitness enthusiast and aspiring trainer," and says he is a fan of the late martial artist/actor Brandon Lee.

Ivey said he could not comment on any statements made by Saienni at the time of his arrest.

Saienni was released on $2,000 unsecured bail on the misdemeanor offenses.

Contact Terri Sanginiti at (302) 324-2771 or tsanginiti@delawareonline.com