Twice last week officers of the Elizabethton Police Department received complaints of a man exposing himself to women at city businesses.
On Saturday morning shortly before 10 a.m., officers of the Elizabethton Police Department were dispatched to the 400 block of East Elk Avenue in downtown after a 911 caller reported a man exposing himself. Officers searched the area but were not able to locate the man described by the caller.
Officers then met with the woman who made the 911 call. She told officers she saw a man in the alleyway behind her business with the zipper to his pants unzipped and he was exposing himself. She described the man as a white male appearing to be in his 60s, wearing a hat, blue shirt, black pants and a black jacket.
The woman told officers the man walked away from the back of her business but he appeared again, this time on East Elk Avenue in front of her business. She said she told him she was calling the police and he left the area.
This incident happened days after another incident of a man exposing himself near a city business. On Sunday, Oct. 30, around 2 p.m. officers responded to the shopping center on West Elk Avenue after a 911 caller reported a man had exposed himself to her in the parking lot in front of one of the stores in the shopping center.
When officers arrived and spoke with the caller she said she pulled into a parking space and noticed that a silver colored hatchback sedan pulled into a space near hers. The woman said the man driving the car looked at her several times and it made her uncomfortable.
The man exited his car, retrieved something from the trunk and then sat back down in the driver’s seat, the woman told officers. She told officers she then saw him touching himself as he looked at her. The woman said she became scared so she pulled out of the parking space to leave and the man opened the door while looking at her and continued to touch himself.
The woman described the man in that incident as a male who appeared to be in his 60s or 70s wearing a black shirt, white jeans and a black hat. She said he was about 6 feet tall and weighed about 160 pounds.