Will Greenlee

will.greenlee@tcpalm.com

STUART — A man accused of wandering naked around a neighbor’s home apparently for at least an hour told investigators he didn’t think of himself as “an exhibitionist,” an arrest affidavit states.

The case of the accused nude dude who didn’t wish to be misconstrued as “an exhibitionist” happened Dec. 4 in Stuart.

A Martin County Sheriff’s investigator went to an address on Southeast Wigeon Court and spoke to a woman who said someone had been ringing her doorbell and knocking on her door at strange hours of the night since before Halloween.

A neighbor helped her install a game camera, which recorded a naked man, later identified as Rodolfo Vasquez, 47, entering her screened in porch by her front door.

A deputy looked at the photos and noticed the naked man “meandering around the front of (the woman’s) residence,” the affidavit states. The incidents occurred between midnight and 6 a.m.

“According to the timestamps of the photographs, Vasquez was there for at least one hour,” the affidavit states.

The woman suspected the accused roving naked man to be a neighbor’s son.

A deputy found Vasquez at the neighboring home. He said he walks naked in his home from time to time, but doesn’t consider himself “an exhibitionist.”

He also said he doesn’t sleep walk.

“I don’t know why I went over there,” he is quoted as saying.

Vasquez, of the 3600 block of Southeast Lower Street in Stuart, was arrested on an attempted burglary to occupied dwelling charge.