Police say they caught Ricky Marshall Kidd Sr. with his pants down.
The Weyers Cave man faces two counts of indecent exposure for showing his buttocks outside several neighborhood hotspots. Two deputies with the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office staked out the Weyers Cave United States Post Office on Thursday morning to catch him.
More charges could follow if witnesses come forward for numerous other suspected exposures, authorities said.
Call-in complaints about Kidd, 47, gave detectives a description to pursue this week: He wore baggy shorts, preyed on female shoppers and operated mainly in the morning, Deputy Chris Kite said.
“We were able to catch him in the act,” he said.
Kite said the sheriff’s office received a call the day before from a manager of Dollar General on Franklin Street.
“As we started getting into this we started getting different names,” Kite said. “The lady at the post office in Weyers Cave told us this may have been going on for more than a month.”
According to authorities, Kidd was waiting in the parking lot for women to walk in or out of a store. Once he spotted them, he’d turn around, bend over pretending to dig through his car and pull down his britches, Kidd said.
Parked in an unmarked police car Thursday morning, patience paid off for investigators.
“We witnessed one encounter this morning,” Kite said. “He was wearing extremely baggy shorts that with no trouble at all left him exposed.”
Authorities said three people called to complain to the post office and some from the Exxon gas station on Lee Highway.
“There were at least two more from the Dollar General and lord only knows countless others,” Kite said.
He was released from Middle River Regional Jail in Verona on a $5,000 bond Thursday.
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