Staff report

HACKETTSTOWN – A town resident was charged with indecent exposure after he urinated in public while talking to a police officer, police said.

At about 1:30 a.m. on Friday, an officer was advised by a passerby that there were two intoxicated males in the parking lot of Bea McNally’s Irish Pub and Eatery on Grand Ave.

The officer went to the parking lot and saw what he believed to be the two men.

The officer approached the men and began speaking to one of them, 46-year-old Hackettstown resident Miguel Bernardo Chanalata, who then began to urinate in public.

Chanalata was then charged with indecent exposure and given a pending a court date.