Indecent Exposer

Indecent Exposer (Nov. 22nd)

Updated: 10:49 PM Nov 22, 2005
Addie Knowlton

It was around eleven in the morning on September 7th, when a woman on her lunch break from work drove to Mahoney Park to take a walk.She asked us to protect her identity for her own safety.
"I was driving through the park, there was a guy who looked fully dressed, but he reached up to scratch his stomach and there everything was."
After the man alledgedly exposed himself, the woman says she immediately called 9-1-1.
"They told me that they had three officers out looking for him, they gave me a case number and that was that."
But the woman says after about a month, the incident was still bothering her, so she took the law into her own hands so to speak, by logging onto www.familywatchdog.us, a website where she could search the area around Mahoney park for registered sex offenders.
"I clicked on the picture and my heart dropped, I knew it was him."
The woman took the man's information to the police, where through a line-up and a search warrant, 55- year-old Alvie Carlson, a level-three registered sex offender living in Lincoln was arrested for public indecency.
The woman says she has a bit of advice for others who might find themselves in the same situation.
"I would say use the Internet and know your surroundings, be cautious when you go out by yourself."