Police: Man exposed himself to teen at Nemacolin bus stop
A Nemacolin man is in jail after allegedly exposing himself to a teenage female who was waiting for the school bus Wednesday morning.
Cumberland Township police said Lawrence Michael Plavi, 35, of 204 Hilltop Court, sat next to the 18-year-old at a bus stop near Roosevelt Avenue in Nemacolin just after 7 a.m. and asked her if she wanted to smoke crack cocaine out of his pipe. She said no twice and turned away from the man, according to court documents.
Police said when she turned back to Plavi he was standing in front of her, exposed and touching himself. Police said he asked her to perform sex acts and reached out to pull her closer to him.
The girl walked away from Plavi, looked around to make sure other children were not exposed to Plavi, and ran home to tell her mother, the criminal complaint said.
Plavi was arrested near Nemacolin Volunteer Fire Department, where he showed police his crack pipe made out of a socket from a wrench, police said. When police asked him why he exposed himself to the teenager, he told them, “I thought she was attractive, and I am horny,” police wrote in court documents.
Plavi was charged by Cumberland police with criminal attempted involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, criminal solicitation, indecent exposure, open lewdness and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Police said Plavi admitted to smoking crack the night before and early that morning. He asked police numerous times if he could have his pipe back so he could scrape off the crack residue inside and smoke it, the complaint said.
Plavi was arraigned Wednesday by District Judge Lee Watson and is being held in Greene County jail on $35,000 bond. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Nov. 29.