{"id":640499,"date":"2026-04-30T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/640499\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:02:11","slug":"man-accused-of-attending-mount-gambier-businesses-while-nude-faces-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/640499\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of attending Mount Gambier businesses while nude faces court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A Mount Gambier man has been granted bail after he was allegedly nude while in businesses and on a busy main road three times in the past week. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared in the Mount Gambier Magistrates Court today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was arrested on Wednesday night and charged with four counts of indecent behaviour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Three of the counts relate to incidents in the past week, when the man was allegedly seen at a bakery and fast-food restaurant in Mount Gambier, and on Jubilee Highway East, while not wearing any clothes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The other count is related to an alleged incident at Surfers Way Beach at Port MacDonnell in December.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man was granted bail and will appear in court again in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police searching for information<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Speaking to ABC South East SA Breakfast program, Limestone Coast Local Service Area officer in charge Superintendent Trent Cox said the alleged incidents were &#8220;bizarre&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Nobody goes into the workplace expecting to be confronted by somebody&#8217;s behaviour, whatever the person&#8217;s justification is,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Our retail industry is quite prevalent with young workers, particularly, just finding their feet in the world of employment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A police officer in a cap standing in front of a police station\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b1665142df35bad56c68c58a753c0f02.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Trent Cox says police are seeking more information from the public. (ABC South East SA: Josh Brine)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;To be exposed to that, no pun intended, is shocking for them.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Superintendent Cox said police were continuing their investigation and called for anyone with information to contact them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;We&#8217;re also aware that the alleged offender in this is believed to have made calls across a number of days prior to yesterday&#8217;s events, sort of floating the idea of coming in and testing the waters about whether it would be acceptable,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;So, we&#8217;re collating all that information as well.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Mount Gambier man has been granted bail after he was allegedly nude while in businesses and on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,2973,310161,468,44,310162,310163],"class_list":["post-640499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-courts","tag-indecent-behaviour","tag-mount-gambier","tag-news","tag-nude-man-in-mount-gambier","tag-nude-man-on-highway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}