Moon police are asking for the public's help in identifying a "person of interest" in connection with a series of indecent exposure reports along the Montour Trail.



Moon Police Chief Leo McCarthy said the department received four complaints this month of a nude male accused of standing on a rocky hillside and fondling himself while overlooking the trail off Montour Run Road. The male first yells to get the attention of startled female joggers below before masturbating.

McCarthy said the man was first reported about 9:45 a.m. on Monday, July 8. He was described as a white male in his 30s, but descriptions of the man's hair has varied, leading investigators to believe he sometimes wears a wig.

"We believe the person may be disguising himself as he exposes himself, putting a wig on to pretend he has more hair on his head," McCarthy said.

Shortly after 1 p.m. Saturday, July 13, a second woman reported seeing a man wearing a T-shirt in the same location who dropped his pants to fondle himself. McCarthy said the male was described as having thick, dark hair. About 11:15 a.m. on Friday, July 19 police received a third report of a biracial man with short brown hair. In the fourth incident, which happened around 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 24, he is described as a white male with dark hair, weighing 220 pounds and wearing a white T-shirt with black print on the front.

In each case, McCarthy said the women caught short glimpses of the man in the same identical spot near a spray-painted rock that reads "Jesus Lives."

"He's in an elevated position above them, he shouts down and they see him fondling himself."

Bikers and joggers use the trail that starts in Moon and continues for more than 40 miles through Robinson, Findlay and multiple other communities.

Police believe the man chose this spot because it is isolated, concealed by bushes and unnoticeable to passersby on nearby Montour Run.