- November 6, 2024
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A Florida Hospital Flagler employee was on her lunch break, walking along a path behind the hospital with her headphones on, when she heard a twig snap and turned around. A man was standing right behind her — about a foot — and holding his exposed genitals in his hand.
He "had an angry expression on his face" and was stimulating himself, and said to her, "YOU WANT THIS?" according to a Flagler County Sheriff's Office report. She yelled, "Get away from me," and ran.
The man, wearing a red T-shirt and hat and later identified as 51-year-old Alonso Ricardo, chased after her, according to the report.
"This was a remote area and no persons were nearby," the Sheriff's Office report states of the Aug. 16 incident.
The man ran after the woman for about a quarter mile. The woman finally reached the hospital parking lot, still running, and tripped on the pavement, scratching and bruising her palms, elbows and knees.
An employee standing in the northeast corner of the lot saw what was happening and called security, and ran toward the victim.
The victim yelled "Help, he exposed himself." The man approached, mumbling something, but then ran off, got into a white Honda CRV in the employee parking area and drove off toward State Road 100.
The witness took a picture of the license plate number and called 911. The call came in to the Sheriff's Office dispatch center at about 1:30 p.m.
A deputy assigned to the case checked with dispatch about the plate number. It was registered to a home on County Road 13 in Bunnell, and two deputies drove out to the home and waited until the white CRV pulled into the long driveway.
It stopped about 50 feet in, then "reversed at a high rate of speed," according to the report.
A deputy got in a vehicle and reached the end of the driveway, and found that Ricardo had reversed and spun out. Ricardo ran, but deputies caught him. He'd changed his shirt, but otherwise matched the description of the suspect given by the victim and witness. Deputies found the red shirt in the CRV, and the victim picked Ricardo out of a lineup.
He is charged with indecent exposure, assault, and resisting arrest without violence.
