North Wales man banned from CVS after exposing himself to clerks

NORRISTOWN >> A judge has banned a North Wales man from a local CVS Pharmacy after he exposed himself to female clerks while shopping for male sexual enhancement pills.

Christian Escobar Aristizabal, 21, whose last known address was in the 100 block of Church Road, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to two years’ probation after he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of indecent exposure in connection with incidents that occurred in May at the CVS store along Sumneytown Pike in Upper Gwynedd.

Judge Todd D. Eisenberg, who accepted a plea agreement in the case, ordered Aristizabal to “stay away from CVS in Upper Gwynedd” as a condition of the sentence. The judge said Aristizabal also must undergo drug, alcohol and mental health evaluations and must comply with all recommendations for treatment.

With the charges, Upper Gwynedd police alleged Aristizabal entered the CVS store in the 700 block of Sumneytown Pike about 9:38 p.m. May 9 and approached a female employee at a checkout counter while his penis was partially exposed over the waistband of his pink shorts.

“The male touched the exposed part of his penis a few times and then purchased some male sexual enhancement pills with a debit card,” Upper Gwynedd Police Officer Harrison Colcher alleged in the arrest affidavit, adding the male then left the store.

However, a short time later, the male, subsequently identified as Aristizabal, returned to the store and approached a second female employee and asked if she could escort him to the aisle that contained condoms and other family planning products, according to the criminal complaint. Aristizabal, who wore a black t-shirt embossed with the words “All Good,” also questioned the clerk about sex toys and lubricant, court papers indicate.

“The employee escorted the male to aisle ten where he again exposed his genitals in the same manner he had done previously,” Colcher alleged, adding store surveillance cameras captured Aristizabal’s conduct before he left the store.

The following day, at 8 a.m. May 10, the manager of the CVS called police to report that the suspect linked to the incidents the night before was back in the store. A responding officer observed Aristizabal in the greeting card aisle standing over a female customer who was kneeling down. Aristizabal’s genitals were exposed at that time, police alleged.

Police said Aristizabal was wearing the same distinctive t-shirt that he had worn the night before during the other incidents.

“A search of his backpack showed two packages of male enhancement pills that employees stated he purchased the previous night when he exposed himself to them,” Colcher wrote in the arrest affidavit.

Under state law, by pleading guilty to the indecent exposure charges Aristizabal admitted that he unlawfully exposed his genitals in a public place under circumstances in which he knew or should have known that his conduct was likely to “offend, affront or alarm.”