{"id":324339,"date":"2026-05-20T09:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324339\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:21:08","slug":"man-accused-of-exposing-himself-to-teen-girl-at-oakland-county-shopping-center-pleads-no-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324339\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of exposing himself to teen girl at Oakland County shopping center pleads no contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. \u2013 The man accused of exposing himself to a 14-year-old girl at a shopping center in Oakland County pleaded no contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/26\/man-accused-of-exposing-himself-to-14-year-old-girl-at-oakland-county-shopping-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/26\/man-accused-of-exposing-himself-to-14-year-old-girl-at-oakland-county-shopping-center\/\">Kruze Detorrian Jelks<\/a>, 35, of Pontiac, has been charged with one count of aggravated indecent exposure, which is a two-year misdemeanor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to Bloomfield Township police, in a press release sent in March, officers responded to the Bloomfield Plaza at the southwest corner of Maple and Telegraph roads on Feb. 17 after receiving a report that a man in a blue Ford F-150 had exposed himself to a 14-year-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The teen told police that \u201cthe suspect was seated inside the F-150 masturbating and his genitals were exposed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">After that, police said the teen contacted her older sister, who was inside a nearby business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">When her sister walked toward the F-150, Jelks allegedly drove off while still masturbating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Using video surveillance from businesses and a partial license plate the teen was able to provide, police identified a suspect vehicle, and the department\u2019s investigations unit identified Jelks as the suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">They also discovered that Jelks was on parole for first-degree criminal sexual conduct and was wearing a tether.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The tether placed him in the area at the time of the indecent exposure incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On May 18, Jelks pleaded no contest to his charge. He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 6 at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. \u2013 The man accused of exposing himself to a 14-year-old girl at a shopping center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[23455,143,904,145,144],"class_list":["post-324339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bloomfield-township","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}