{"id":332233,"date":"2026-08-28T22:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332233\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T22:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:08:08","slug":"man-wanted-in-campbell-county-indecent-exposure-case-arrested-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332233\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wanted in Campbell County indecent exposure case arrested in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAMPBELL COUNTY, Va. (WSET) \u2014 Eli Lemuel Howard, who was wanted in connection with an indecent exposure incident at a Five Below on Wards Road on Aug. 3, has been arrested in New York City for similar crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Howard was wanted on charges of indecent exposure and obscene sexual display after allegedly evading police and fleeing the state nearly three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>New York police arrested Howard after someone reported seeing him commit a lewd act on a live camera on the George Washington Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>EARLIER: <a href=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/news\/local\/18-year-old-wanted-for-allegedly-exposing-himself-at-five-below-in-campbell-county-sheriffs-office-eli-lemuel-howard-august-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">18-year-old wanted for allegedly exposing himself at Five Below in Campbell County<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Campbell County Sheriff&#8217;s Capt. Brian Murray explained what took place in New York.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So our understanding is he was located on the George Washington Bridge in New York City. And someone allegedly saw him committing a lewd sex act on camera, on the live camera and reported it to police,&#8221; said Murray.  &#8220;And our understanding is the police responded. He tried to flee. He was apprehended and then they found out about our charges and contacted us, and we&#8217;re working on extradition now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Murray said investigators have sent a detainer to New York City while they work through the extradition process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we&#8217;ve sent a detainer to New York City. So they will hold him; he&#8217;ll have an extradition hearing soon. And he&#8217;ll decide whether to waive that extradition hearing or either have the hearing, depending on what happens,&#8221; said Murray. &#8220;It could take a few weeks up to possibly a few months. But when all that&#8217;s done, we plan to go get him and bring him back here to face his charges in Campbell County.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Murray said authorities typically do not extradite people for misdemeanor charges, but they hope to get answers regarding the crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Police do not yet have a timeline for Howard&#8217;s return to Virginia to face the charges stemming from the Aug. 3 incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAMPBELL COUNTY, Va. (WSET) \u2014 Eli Lemuel Howard, who was wanted in connection with an indecent exposure incident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-332233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332233","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=332233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}