A HALF-naked woman caught masturbating in public continued to pleasure herself even after she was arrested, police say.

Dovie Nickels, 26, is accused of indecent exposure after she was cuffed without trousers on outside a hotel in Austin, Texas.

3 Dovie Nickels, 26, allegedly pleasured herself while sitting in the back of a police car Credit: Austin Police Department

3 Nickels is accused of indecent exposure outside this Austin hotel Credit: Google

She allegedly continued to masturbate in the back of police car after cops were called to the JW Marriott Austin hotel around 5:20pm on Tuesday, according to court documents.

A hotel worker told police that he saw her on the patio “holding a silver object” to her genitals “with her legs straight up in the air, spread open”, the Austin American Statesman reports.

He added that he "could hear Nickels making moaning noises", the court doc said.

When the staff member approached her to tell her to stop, Nickels allegedly shouted at him to get back.

She then spent a further seven to eight minutes masturbating outside the hotel - before moving to the terrace of the nearby Second Bar + Kitchen, it is claimed.

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Officers approached her as she sat outside the bar when she immediately stopped moving her arms under the table and placed them on top, police say.

It is then that officers claim they "observed that Nickels was not wearing any pants."

Nickels was Travis County Jail on Wednesday - with bail set at $3,000 (£2,285).

3 Nickels, seen in an earlier mugshot, is being held on $3,000 bail Credit: Austin Police Department