Newport News, Virginia
It’s no secret that all the pressures of police work can really bring on the need for a release. Well, according to police in Newport News, one of their colleagues has found the perfect way to relax – well, sort of.
Newport News Police Officer Christopher Roush, 41, was first arrested on April 7, after police said he exposed himself at his front door on Harpersville Road, masturbating in view of passers-by. At the time, Roush was charged with exposing himself to two people, and faced three misdemeanor counts.
However, since that time, the court is almost running out of ink and paper, as the charges continue to multiply. Court documents now list the initials of six people who were subjected to viewing Roush "yank his chain" on that April day. The misdemeanor charges against Roush have quadrupled to 12 counts — seven counts of indecent exposure and five counts of making an "obscene sexual display."
There’s also a felony charge now, as one of the victims happened to be a child under the age of 15-years old. That earned him a charge of taking indecent liberties with a child.
"Christopher E. Roush ... did knowingly, intentionally and with lascivious intent expose his or her sexual or genital parts to ... a child under the age of 15 years," according to the indictment.
Roush turned himself in on Saturday and was released on an $11,000 bond. In a brief arraignment in Circuit Court on Monday, Roush waived the reading of the 13 indictments against him.
Court documents paint the ugly picture of a day filled with porch penis pulling.
According to the initial criminal complaint filed against the officer in General District Court, police responded to Roush's home on Harpersville Rood about 9 a.m. on April 7. An officer arrived and saw a man pointing at Roush's home from across the street.
The officer then turned and saw Roush standing in his doorway "entirely nude," holding the glass door open and pointing back "at the citizen from across the street," the complaint said. The officer then made a U-turn, the complaint said, and "Mr. Roush withdrew into the home and closed both the glass and the wooden door."
Later, the complaint said, police spoke with a woman who told them that she saw a man standing on the front porch of the same home, "holding the door open" with one hand and masturbating with the other. After she made a U-Turn, the woman told police, the man "was still masturbating on the front porch," the complaint said.
The woman later picked Roush out of a photo spread as the man she saw, police said.
Roush is not only a master at masturbation, but also a master police officer who has been with the department for nine years and was assigned to the South Precinct of the city. Since his arrest, he's been on administrative leave without pay.
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