Man arrested for August lewdness incident

The woman, a visitor to campus, was walking on Elm Drive between West College and Clio Hall just after 10:30 p.m. when she was stopped by a man who asked for directions and exposed himself, according to a campus-wide safety alert sent the following morning.

After the woman called the police, Public Safety officers began a search of the area and saw someone on William Street fitting the victim’s description of the perpetrator. The 24-year-old Munoz was detained, identified by the victim and arrested by Borough Police.

This was the fourth case of lewdness on campus since the middle of last spring. On April 18, two female students, each of whom was walking alone at the time, reported encountering a man who was masturbating and who exposed his genitals to them. And on May 18, a female student reported that she was approached by a man who asked her for directions and was masturbating.

Each of these incidents occurred within a few hundred feet of the August incident: in the East Pyne courtyard, near 1879 Hall and on the steps between Buyers and Witherspoon halls, respectively.

The perpetrator in the August incident, who the woman identified to police as a Hispanic man in his 20s wearing jeans and a white button-down shirt, has much in common with descriptions of the earlier perpetrators given by the other women. In April, both students described the suspect as a Hispanic male, approximately six feet, two inches tall and 29 years old, wearing a blue and black zip-up jacket and jeans, while the May perpetrator was described as a dark skinned male, approximately 6’ tall and in his mid-20s, wearing a dark jacket, baggy sweat pants and a light-colored, possibly white, shirt. All of these descriptions were detailed in campus safety reports.

Borough Police Lieutenant Nicholas Sutter declined to comment on whether the latest arrest was related to the earlier incidents.

“We can never comment on any investigative findings prior to court,” he said in August.

In April, Borough Police also arrested two men in connection with separate alleged incidents of criminal sexual contact on campus.

Police officers arrested an unidentified man in relation to an incident that took place at around 3:20 a.m. on April 19 on Alexander Beach. A female student reported that she was grabbed by a man who “reached under her clothes to touch her,” according to a campus-wide safety alert.

On April 17, Muhammad Kader was arrested for touching and attempting to kiss a University employee in Alexander Hall. Kader was working as a waiter for an outside catering company.