{"id":429627,"date":"2026-08-11T08:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T08:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/429627\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T08:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T08:48:29","slug":"oakland-county-man-arrested-after-being-caught-masturbating-in-twelve-oaks-mall-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/429627\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland County man arrested after being caught masturbating in Twelve Oaks Mall, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dylan Scotten, 25, of Clarkston, is facing indecent exposure charges<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">NOVI, Mich. \u2013 A Clarkston man was arrested after he was allegedly found masturbating in the Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Dylan Scotten, 25, is facing felony charges of indecent exposure by a sexually delinquent person and aggravated indecent exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Scotten (Oakland County Jail)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">According to Novi police, witnesses reported seeing Scotten allegedly masturbating in the common area of the mall at around 8 p.m. on Aug. 8. When he was confronted by mall security, he allegedly ran away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Officers arrived and arrested him in the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">He was arraigned in court and was given a $250,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorSamantha Sayles headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/team\/ssayles\/\" title=\"View Samantha Sayles&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samantha Sayles<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Samantha Sayles is an Oakland University alumna who\u2019s been writing Michigan news since 2022. Before joining the ClickOnDetroit team, she wrote stories for WILX in Lansing and WEYI in Flint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dylan Scotten, 25, of Clarkston, is facing indecent exposure charges NOVI, Mich. \u2013 A Clarkston man was arrested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[15262,13448,143,904,145,144],"class_list":["post-429627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-clarkston","tag-novi","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\/429627","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=429627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}