Man charged with exposing self at bus stop
CHARLEROI – A Fayette County man was arrested Monday on charges he repeatedly exposed himself over several months to children walking to a Charleroi school bus stop.
Charleroi Regional police charged Jeremy Akers, 36, of Connellsville, with harassment, open lewdness, unlawful contact and indecent exposure after he turned himself in at the borough police station, court records state.
The investigation revealed a school police officer followed Akers’ car from the bus stop at Second Street and McKean Avenue, and he wrote down its license plate number Oct. 31, a day after an 11-year-old girl said she saw him in the passenger seat with no pants as she walked to the bus, the record states. The girl also said Akers made an inappropriate remark to her while he sat in the car with the passenger door open.
Police received another report the suspect’s car drove away from the bus stop Nov. 19 after he noticed parents in the area.
An assistant principal then went to the bus stop a month later and also followed Akers’ car and jotted down its license plate number. When the principal returned that day to the school, a 15-year-old reported she noticed the man several times doing inappropriate things in his car in that area.
Akers is in Washington County jail on $75,000 bond set by District Judge Larry Hopkins.