{"id":331883,"date":"2026-08-28T15:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331883\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T15:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:06:15","slug":"forest-man-with-warrants-for-public-indecency-arrested-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331883\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest man, with warrants for public indecency, arrested in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CAMPBELL COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) &#8211; A Forest man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/2026\/08\/12\/deputies-search-18-year-old-man-with-warrants-sexual-misconduct-public\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wdbj7.com\/2026\/08\/12\/deputies-search-18-year-old-man-with-warrants-sexual-misconduct-public\/\">with warrants for public indecency in Campbell County<\/a> was arrested in New York City Aug. 27, according to the Campbell County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The Campbell County Sheriff's Office says it's in search of Eli Lemuel Howard, of Forest, who...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/55Q5I57WCFAC3CDSROTBKWWSEA.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1047\" \/>The Campbell County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says it&#8217;s in search of Eli Lemuel Howard, of Forest, who has warrants for his arrest in its indecent exposure investigation.(The Campbell County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies said 18-year-old Eli Lemuel Howard was arrested in New York City when officers allegedly caught him performing a lewd act in public on the George Washington Bridge Thursday evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During the apprehension, New York authorities learned Howard was wanted on outstanding public indecency warrants in Virginia, according to the sheriff\u2019s office. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cHoward was wanted by the Campbell County Sheriff\u2019s Office in connection with an incident that occurred on August 3, 2026, at Five Below in Campbell County,\u201d deputies said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cFollowing an investigation, warrants were obtained charging Howard with Indecent Exposure (\u00a7 18.2-387) and Obscene Sexual Display (\u00a7 18.2-387.1).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies also said arrangements will be made for Howard to be extradited to face the pending charges against him. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WDBJ. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAMPBELL COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) &#8211; A Forest man with warrants for public indecency in Campbell County was arrested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[124882,124880,124879,73594,9,24,56,63,65,64,124881],"class_list":["post-331883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-campbell-county","tag-campbell-county-sheriffs-office","tag-eli-lemuel-howard","tag-indecent-exposure","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-obscene-sexual-display"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}