Public Indecency In Parking Lots Leads To Arrest

(Aurora, Ind.) – A man faces allegations of public indecency after he approached women in two Aurora parking lots with his private parts exposed.

Danny Stoneking was masturbating in a teal blue passenger car in the parking lot of the Aurora Wal-Mart the afternoon of October 22. He drove up to a female in the lot and said to her “Hey baby,” according to a probable cause affidavit.

The female victim told Aurora Police officers what the man looked like and that he was last seen driving towards the nearby River Creek Village Shopping Center.

The suspect eluded police until another incident which occurred at River Creek Village Shopping Center on February 2. A woman was sitting in her SUV with her one-year-old grandchild in the back seat in the parking lot when a blue Chevrolet Corsica pulled up in the space next to her. She could see that the male driver was masturbating.

The woman drove to another area of the parking lot, but the male followed in his vehicle.

“She stated that this time she heard the male ask her if she liked it,” Aurora Police investigators wrote in the affidavit.

The woman called police and provided them with a description of the man and the car he was driving, as well as the car’s license plate number.

An Aurora Police officer spotted the suspect vehicle at the Shell gas station on U.S. 50 in Aurora. The officer found Stoneking inside the convenience store.

“Stoneking stated that he did not expose his penis and that he had a leg cramp so he drove around the parking lot,” the affidavit read.

Stoneking denied officers’ request to search the car. Aurora Police impounded Stoneking’s vehicle as they awaited a search warrant.

The next week, Stoneking met with officers for an interview at the Aurora Police Department. He admitted to both the Wal-Mart and River Creek Village incidents.

Stoneking, 38, is charged with two counts of Public Indecency, a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail. He was arrested February 13 and bonded out of the Dearborn County Law Enforcement Center the following day.