SRSO: Naked Gulf Breeze man tasered after walking through neighborhood, carrying cooking oil

A Gulf Breeze man was arrested for allegedly walking completely naked through a Woodlawn Way neighborhood Thursday evening.

Joseph John Musso, 63, faces several charges in connection to the incident, including loitering and prowling, lewd and lascivious behavior, resisting an officer without violence and exposure of sexual organs.

A Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office deputy was dispatched to Woodlawn Way in Gulf Breeze at about 8:30 p.m. after a homeowner reported that while he was in Pensacola, his security camera provided an alert to his cellphone that someone was near his front door.

The security camera captured footage of a naked white man walking past the home near the front door, the homeowner told authorities, according to Musso's arrest report.

At the time, two children and a babysitter were inside, but the report notes the three did not see the naked man.

While the deputy was at the home getting information, he received a second call from a neighbor reporting that he saw a naked man with an erection on his front porch.

The deputy walked outside and saw the man, who was later identified as Musso, standing in the driveway of a home in the 1500 block of Woodlawn Way.

Musso was completely naked and had an erection, according to the report. He was reportedly standing near a red pickup truck and was holding a plastic bottle with cooking oil.

Musso attempted to run around the truck to avoid the deputy, but the deputy caught up to him and removed the bottle of cooking oil from his hand, the report states.

Amid heavy rainfall, the deputy tried to handcuff Musso but the man allegedly slipped away and started to run through the yard toward the street.

He continued to run down the middle of the street, even after the deputy drew his Taser and commanded Musso to stop.

The deputy eventually fired his Taser at Musso, forcing him to fall to the ground on his back. Musso was handcuffed and placed in a patrol vehicle.

Musso, who lives in the Woodlawn Way neighborhood, told deputies he receives sexual gratification by being naked in public, the report states.

He said he was carrying the cooking oil because he liked to rub it on his legs.

Musso told authorities that he left his home and walked to the gravel access road north of the track at Woodlawn Beach Middle School before then walking through the neighborhood for about an hour and a half.

Musso allegedly told authorities that he was not aroused by the sight of any individual in the area, but was aroused by being naked in the rain.

He also told authorities he had previously walked naked in his neighborhood one other time, but he prefers to walk naked at the beach and had done so at both Pensacola Beach and Navarre Beach.

Musso was booked into the Santa Rosa County Jail late Thursday and has since been released.