{"id":421073,"date":"2026-10-07T10:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/421073\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:37:15","slug":"st-pete-man-arrested-after-exposing-himself-to-women-at-walmart-sppd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/421073\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete man arrested after exposing himself to women at Walmart: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG \u2014 A St. Petersburg man was arrested Tuesday after exposing himself to multiple women inside a Walmart store, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Petersburg Police Department charged Eric Ruffin, 23, with exposure of sexual organs.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Ruffin entered the Walmart at 3501 34th St. N. in St. Petersburg after arriving in a Mercedes-Benz sedan.<\/p>\n<p>While inside the store, Ruffin raised his shorts and exposed himself to multiple women, according to an arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>The incidents were captured on surveillance video.<\/p>\n<p>The registered owner of the Mercedes told police that Ruffin was driving the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>He was booked into the Pinellas County Jail without bond.<\/p>\n<p>Ruffin also was arrested in January for exposing himself in Hillsborough County, court records show.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/CHAD.MILLS.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My heart breaks&#8217;: Woman describes helping injured students after deadly school bus crash in Polk County<\/p>\n<p>A woman on her way to work Monday morning found herself helping injured Winter Haven High School students after a school bus crash that killed two people.<\/p>\n<p>Woman describes helping injured students after deadly school bus crash in Polk County<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG \u2014 A St. Petersburg man was arrested Tuesday after exposing himself to multiple women inside a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[166214,596,107032,132,202,204,203,199,201,200,5910,3670,17456,208,3334],"class_list":["post-421073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-exposing","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-news","tag-police","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-walmart","tag-wfts","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421073","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=421073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}