Man re-arrested, is suspect in 2 other indecent exposure cases
63-year-old recently accused of making sexual motions to girls
A 63-year-old Yuma man arrested last weekend for allegedly making sexual motions in front of three underage girls at the Yuma Palms Regional Center has been re-arrested in connection with three other prior indecent exposure incidents involving minors.
“He was taken back into custody last night,” said Sgt. Lori Franklin, a spokesperson for the Yuma Police Department.
Dwight Raley, who is already facing three misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct and one misdemeanor count of false reporting in the most recent incident, is being held on charges of public sexual indecency with a minor under 15, indecent exposure with a victim under 15, and disorderly conduct.
On Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, at approximately 7:25 a.m., a 15-year-old Yuma High School female student was stopped for traffic at the corner of 6th Avenue and 6th Street. While there, an unidentified male, now believed to be Raley, exposed himself to the student from
inside a vehicle.
The student immediately went to school and reported the incident.
On May 2, at approximately 6:41 a.m., an older white male sitting inside a vehicle exposed himself to a 13-year-old female while stopped in the area of Dora Avenue and 19th Street.
Then on Feb. 25, at approximately 6:00 p.m., an unknown male suspect, allegedly Raley, asked a 12-year-old female a question that was sexual in nature while she was at the Cibola Athletic Complex, located at 4100 W. 20th Street.
The victim told police that she had seen the same suspect drive by slowly many times as she walked to Woodard Middle School.
Franklin said detectives were able to match either Raley or his vehicle to descriptions provided by victims in the three previous incidents.
Raley, who has two cases against him, made his initial appearance in Yuma Justice Court on Monday, and is being held on $20,000 bond for each case.
He is scheduled to return to court on Monday for his arraignment, at which time he will be informed whether a criminal complaint has been filed against him.
In the most recent incident at the Yuma Palms Mall, the girls told a mall security guard that an older white male, who was driving a brown, newer model, Chevy Silverado pickup, allegedly pulled up next to them and raised his hips and made a motion like he was masturbating and drove away.
The man, according to police, then drove around the parking lot and went back to where the girls were and did the same thing a second time.
A security guard who located the pickup still in the mall area got its license plate number and took a picture of it and reported the incident to Yuma police. Officers responded to the mall in reference to a report of indecent exposure.
Yuma police, who had been provided with the pickup’s last known direction of travel by the mall security guard, located it a short time later in the 1000 block of 16th Street and conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle.
Raley, who was driving the pickup, was arrested and booked on three misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct and one misdemeanor count of false reporting.
Although he initially denied being in the area of the Yuma Palms Mall, Raley eventually admitted he had been there after officers showed him the pictures of his pickup there.