Sex offender confesses to masturbating in laundry mat

Sex offender confesses to masturbating in laundry mat By THE RECORDER Police arrested a high-risk sex offender Saturday night after a woman reported she saw him masturbating at a local laundry mat.

The suspect, identified as 31-year-old Robert Castaneda, was booked into the custody of the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department on suspicion of indecent exposure.

The Porterville Police Department reports that at approximately 9:10 p.m., officers responded to the laundry mat in the sub-100 block of North D Street where the woman reported that an Hispanic man entered the business and was acting strange. She said a that a short time later, she saw the man masturbating in the corner of the building, the PPD reports. When she told him she was calling the police, he fled from the business on foot.

Officers located Castaneda hiding in some nearby bushes. They later learned he was on active parole with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and that he was listed as a high-risk sex offender on a GPS monitor.

Police say Castaneda later confessed to the act.

Source: Recorder Online