Will Greenlee

will.greenlee@tcpalm.com

HOBE SOUND — Deputies arrested a man after reports that he “keeps pulling his penis out” at a coin laundry, an affidavit states.

Accused private part exposer Steven Smith, 36, was jailed April 29 after Martin County Sheriff's investigators say he lead them on a chase.

The case began when a deputy went to a report of a bearded bald man in a yellow-and-black shirt with glasses and light blue jeans who “keeps pulling his penis out” at the laundromat in Hobe Sound.

Penises typically are not pulled out at laundromats.

An investigator turned onto Bridge Road and spotted a man matching the description walk from the area of the laundry toward a Buick.

A woman pointed and said, “That’s him.”

Investigators say the man sped away, and lead a deputy on a chase, at one point traveling more than 90 mph in a 45 mph zone.

Once a deputy got the man to stop, he said he was in the laundromat and alluded to “making a deal for sexual acts” but that “’my money wasn’t right.’”

Investigators reported finding marijuana in his vehicle.

Smith, of the 3100 block of Southeast Garden Street in Stuart, was arrested on charges including fleeing to elude (wanton disregard), possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and exposure of sexual organs.