{"id":116682,"date":"2026-01-13T18:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116682\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T18:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:59:09","slug":"seminole-man-charged-with-lewd-act-at-park-crime-crashes-and-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116682\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminole man charged with lewd act at park | Crime, Crashes and Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEMINOLE \u2014 A Seminole man faces two felony charges after juveniles playing basketball at a park on Christmas Eve spotted him watching pornography, sheriff&#8217;s officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Prutsman, 61, was arrested Jan. 5 and charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies responded to Blossom Lake Park about 3:37 p.m. Dec. 24 after receiving a report that Prutsman was sitting on a bench watching pornography with his hands in his pants, the agency said. Two boys playing basketball witnessed the incident and asked another adult to call 911 because they didn&#8217;t have a phone.<\/p>\n<p>Prutsman admitted to watching pornography at the park but denied touching himself, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>He was booked into the Pinellas County Jail. The investigation continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEMINOLE \u2014 A Seminole man faces two felony charges after juveniles playing basketball at a park on Christmas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[596,3152,3883,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-116682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-pinellas-county","9":"tag-pinellas-county-sheriff","10":"tag-seminole","11":"tag-st-pete","12":"tag-st-pete-headlines","13":"tag-st-pete-news","14":"tag-st-petersburg","15":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","16":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}