Charges: UW flasher a convicted rapist Puyallup man jailed as police investigate string of flashings at University of Washington

A convicted rapist has been charged with exposing himself to one young woman on University of Washington’s Seattle campus while suspicions that he did the same to others there are being investigated.

King County prosecutors claim Kalvin Snowden masturbated in front of a 19-year-old UW student on June 25.

Snowden, a 39-year-old Puyallup man, is alleged to have exposed himself to the woman shortly after two similar flashings were reported. He has not been charged in either of those.

In the charged incident, the woman was sitting in Schmitz Hall when, at 1:50 p.m., a strange man sat down next to her and began masturbating, a UW police lieutenant said in charging papers.

The woman recalled a campus safety notification sent to students and staff less than an hour before warning that an unidentified man was masturbating in front of UW students. She contacted university police, who arrested Snowden nearby.

Questioned following his arrest, Snowden denied the allegations. He was booked into King County Jail, where he remains jailed on $100,000 bail.

Writing the court, Senior Deputy Prosecutor Carla Carlstrom said investigators are still looking into the earlier incidents.

“The University of Washington Police is continuing to investigate two other incidents of indecent exposure on the … campus that happened close in time to this one that may be connected to the defendant,” Calrstrom said.

Snowden has been charged with a felony indecent exposure. He was convicted of rape a decade ago in Alabama, and remains a registered sex offender.

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