When an officer reportedly encountered two men in the middle of a sexual encounter in a St. Petersburg park they were both placed under arrest for the alleged public display.
Just before 10:30 pm on June 30, an officer with the St. Petersburg Police Department was in Unity Park.
According to the city Parks and Recreation site, the small recreational area features “a great neighborhood playground for St. Petersburg’s younger residents.”
55-year-old Victor Allen Jacobs resides in Moberly, Missouri.
According to court documents, Jacobs was convicted of rape in 2001, and when he was released from prison he was ordered to register as a sex offender.
A man and woman who were allegedly drinking in a Florida park were apprehended after they reportedly engaged in sexual behavior inside the playground equipment tunnel.
In the morning on June 4, 52-year-old Sharon Finlay and her boyfriend, Germain Loen Jackson, 44, were reportedly hanging out at Pocahontas Park in Vero Beach, Florida. The couple was allegedly drinking vodka and malt beverages on the playground.
The pair reportedly crawled into the tunnel attached to the jungle gym and started to get sexually intimate with each other in public.
The authorities have reported that they ended a months-long search for a stolen playground slide after discovering it inside the bedroom of a Burbank mobile home.
Last December, the authorities were told that a slide from Tierra Vida Park in Pascoe, Washington, had disappeared from its place in the playground. The weight of the large piece of equipment was an estimated 400-pounds.
The police search was fruitless until the end of February.
A Canton, Michigan, 10-year-old boy has been accused of aggravated assault after another child was injured on the playground while they were playing ball together.
At the end of April, two boys were playing ball on the school campus at Ruth Eriksson Elementary School. The game they were taking part in was reportedly similar to dodgeball, but the ball is thrown into the air instead of aiming for the opponents.
While the boys tossed the ball, it accidentally hit one of them in the face causing him to sustain a black eye and bruising from the impact.
After allegedly being caught while engaging in a sexual act together inside of a vehicle parked next to a playground, two Catholic priests are facing charges.
Just before 3:30 pm on September 4, a Volkswagen containing two men was reportedly parked on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach next to a park near the playground.
Due to the popularity of the location, there were several people in the area, and someone believed that they saw the men inside the vehicle partaking in oral sex and a call was placed to report it to the police.
According to news reports a 24 year old man named William A Bates Jr., of Kansas City is charged with first degree attempted sodomy and attempted statutory sodomy with a person under 12.
At Kemp playground a two year old was playing on a swing when her mother noticed Bates allegedly “eyeballing her children.” The mother told police that Bates then approached her daughter and grabbed her off the swing before allegedly grabbing the girl by the hips and pulling down her diaper. The mother said that she saw Bates lift his shirt and pull down his pants, to which then he started thrusting against her daughter.
Reportedly the police say she ran after Bates, knocking him to the ground, and while he was down she was attacking him with her fists. Bates eventually freed himself and ran from the park, but the mother ran to a nearby homeless shelter and called the police. Officers arrested Bates near the playground.
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