TENNESSEE
The Smoking Gun
DECEMBER 14–A Salvation Army “bell ringer” stationed outside a Tennessee supermarket exposed himself after a child dropped money into the donation kettle, police charge.
Cops were dispatched Thursday afternoon to a Food City outlet in Kingsport after a man called 911 to report that a Salvation Army volunteer had “lifted up his red apron” and exposed his genitalia, which the suspect had “pulled out from the inside of his pants.”
The lewd act, witness Cody Estes reported, occurred after his four-year-old son placed change into the Salvation Army’s trademark red kettle. The witness told police that the boy did not notice the volunteer exposing himself.
While suspect William Martin, 61, initially denied any wrongdoing, he “eventually admitted to the illicit act,” according to a Kingsport Police Department arrest affidavit.
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