BREWER, Maine — A resident at a North Main Street apartment building with at least six tenants called police Saturday night to report a male resident was naked and in sight of children, Brewer police Cpl. Paul Gauvin said Monday.
Roland Devoe, 48, was charged with two indecent conduct violations at about 7:45 p.m. Saturday after police learned he was naked in his apartment with the door wide open.
Several children were interviewed and one reported that “when he looked inside [Devoe’s apartment] the guy was naked,” Gauvin said, reading from Cpl. Nelson Ferro’s report.
In addition to being charged, Devoe also was “counseled about not having his clothes on,” the corporal said.
Bangor police dealt with a half-dressed Devoe last month at Shaw’s supermarket. Someone called police at around 8:15 p.m. June 21 to say a man, later identified as Devoe, “was sitting on the steps with only a shirt on,” Bangor police Sgt. Ed Potter said at the time.
When Officer Jason Linkletter arrived, he found Devoe intoxicated inside a bathroom stall at the Main Street grocery store, the sergeant said.
Devoe had been given a written trespass warning on June 3 barring him from Shaw’s, so he was arrested by Linkletter for criminal trespassing.
Devoe has four convictions for disorderly conduct since April 2011 and two counts of violating conditions of his release, according to court listings printed in the Bangor Daily News. Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN)
I realize it’s extremely hot but C’mon man put some clothes on! Crazy…
Or at least close the door and pull the shades! They keep using this same mugshot in every article of him! Dude brake your nose the other way cause it is quite creepy!
Just a human body… in some other states it would not even be illegal.
I know it’s hot, but least put a towel on, dude. Not everyone finds you that way.
Seems that old bent nose shows up on every other ‘Similar article’ mugshot lineup. Time to lay low…..
that is a great mug shot!!!
Who broke his nose? All joking aside: Who cares, the poor man was just trying to beat the heat, if people don’t like nudity they should look away.
That’s all fine and dandy when it’s all adults. When kids are present, you cannot just wander around with your twig and berries hanging out.
or if you are a good parent you shouldn’t let your kids run around unattended!
That’s right. I chain mine to the wall, and would never let them walk through the hallways of our apartment building unattended till they are at least old enough to drink beer.
What should the mother do, hold on to her child’s hand as he runs around playing?? Run after him as he plays saying “don’t look around because there might be a sick, drunken man with no clothes on in one of the doors that you might run by!! Children need to run and play without chains on and yes parents need to keep an eye on their children to keep them safe from sick, drunken naked men!!
Same mug shot from before, he likes breaking the law.
We are treading on a slippery slope here, yes he should not be in plain sight of children, but if we start ruling what people can wear within their own residence; we are opening up a BIG can of worms.
all i have to say is WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!
Looks like life has slapped him up side the head one too many times…
seriously people, this is obviously a mental health issue. our mental health system is pathetic
What bugs me about this story–and so many more like it–is that it says so much about the way the words “neighbor,” “community,” and “neighborhood” have changed. Frankly, this is an issue that shouldn’t have ever resulted in a call to the police (certainly not at *this* stage in the neighbor-to-neighbor conflict).
In what kind of insane world would this result in you picking up the phone and calling the cops: your kid comes home, tells you he ran past an apartment, stopped to look inside, and saw a naked guy? There are a number of ways a parent could deal with this,
…from the over-reaction of getting a few men together, going to the apartment, and politely (but firmly and without ambiguity about the seriousness of your message) asking him to either start keeping his door closed or start wearing shorts.
…to simply blowing it off, telling your kid to quit peeking in other people’s houses, and then keeping a passive eye on the place to see if there’s anything you need to do.
Personally, I’d walk my kid down to the guy’s apartment (have my kid stand to the side while I waited to make sure our neighbor answered the door at least partially clothed), tell him my son wanted to apologize for having looked into his apartment… {insert awkward kid apology here} …then add that in the future, all of this could be avoided if he would just either keep his door closed or wear shorts. If he got huffy about it, I might simply MENTION that our neighborhood has many kids in it, and fiercely protective parents. If the problem then persisted, I would move to the next step of paying him a visit with a handful of said fiercely protective parents. We wouldn’t do the police’s job. We wouldn’t be vigilantes. We’d be neighbors, acting like neighbors, dealing with the problems that arise in neighborhoods. If all else failed, we would *then* call the police.
Sadly, the first thing we do these days is pick up the phone and call the cops. Show some common sense and deal with problems in rational ways. Most are pretty easy to resolve, and NOT involving the police can even help reduce animosity that calling in the authorities can cause.