{"id":17244,"date":"2025-10-23T13:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17244\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:39:12","slug":"cape-coral-police-searching-for-man-accused-of-exposing-himself-in-front-of-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17244\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral police searching for man accused of exposing himself in front of workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIt&#8217;s not the kind of exposure a business wants or expects in broad daylight.Cape Coral police are looking for a man accused of flashing employees outside a business in an industrial park. It happened around four o\u2019clock Monday afternoon on Southeast Ninth Court, in an area surrounded by tire shops, repair businesses, and a special-needs school for adults. Police say the man pulled up outside a business, sat in a chair, and flashed his private parts at employees before taking off in a maroon Kia Forte.&#8221;We\u2019re not that far at all from neighborhoods &#8230; like a block. So it\u2019s horrible,&#8221; said Cody Stewmon, who works at a nearby shop. &#8220;You don&#8217;t want to have to worry about some guy going up to your kid and flashing them.&#8221; Paul Petersdorff, who works at an auto body shop in the area, says the incident raises a lot of questions.&#8221;We\u2019re all human, and people have a lot of problems,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Maybe the guy needs help.&#8221;Neighbors say it\u2019s not just the nearby school that makes this concerning; there are also homes and bus stops just a few hundred feet away.Police told Gulf Coast News the business did everything right by calling 911 right away. Investigators are still working to identify the man and are asking anyone with information to come forward.DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tCAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the kind of exposure a business wants or expects in broad daylight.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Coral police are looking for a man accused of flashing employees outside a business in an industrial park. <\/p>\n<p>It happened around four o\u2019clock Monday afternoon on Southeast Ninth Court, in an area surrounded by tire shops, repair businesses, and a special-needs school for adults. Police say the man pulled up outside a business, sat in a chair, and flashed his private parts at employees before taking off in a maroon Kia Forte.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re not that far at all from neighborhoods &#8230; like a block. So it\u2019s horrible,&#8221; said Cody Stewmon, who works at a nearby shop. &#8220;You don&#8217;t want to have to worry about some guy going up to your kid and flashing them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Paul Petersdorff, who works at an auto body shop in the area, says the incident raises a lot of questions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re all human, and people have a lot of problems,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Maybe the guy needs help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors say it\u2019s not just the nearby school that makes this concerning; there are also homes and bus stops just a few hundred feet away.<\/p>\n<p>Police told Gulf Coast News the business did everything right by calling 911 right away. Investigators are still working to identify the man and are asking anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not the kind of exposure a business wants or expects in broad daylight.Cape Coral police are looking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2954,558,209,211,210,212,9750,104,4059,4329,3103,213,1736,2391,197,12162,221,14457],"class_list":["post-17244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-area","tag-business","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cape-coral-police","tag-employee","tag-entertainment","tag-front","tag-gulf-coast-news","tag-guy","tag-late-news","tag-lot","tag-man","tag-sport","tag-tire-shop","tag-weather","tag-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17244","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=17244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}