Man arrested for public indecency after being mistaken for missing man
by KBCY News Staff
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COOS BAY, Ore. -- A Coos County man was arrested Saturday on indecency and escape charges after being mistaken for a man reported missing earlier, Coos County Sheriff's Office reports.
Around 12:40 p.m. on September 14, a Coos County deputy traveling west on Newmark Avenue in Coos Bay observed a man matching the description of an individual that had been reported missing the day before.
As the deputy was walking up to him he noticed it wasn’t the missing person which had been reported.
The deputy also realized the man "was masturbating onto a piece of rusted metal, in full view of the public," the sheriff's office said.
The man, identified as 31-year-old Mark A. Dixon, was taken into custody.
While the deputy was attempting to secure him in the back of his patrol vehicle, Dixon began running away with his hands cuffed behind his back.
The deputy caught him and secured him in the back of the patrol vehicle where he was transported to the Coos County Jail without further incident, lodged and booked for Public Indecency and Escape in the Third Degree.
