Boca Raton Police Arrest Man After ‘Appalling’ Lewd Act in Neighborhood

Eduardo Exequiel Lares Alonzo (Photo: Palm Beach County Jail)

A 25-year-old Honduran man staying in Boca Raton was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly exposed himself and engaged in a shocking sexual act in the front yard of a home, according to police.

Eduardo Exequiel Lares Alonzo, a Honduran national who reportedly was residing in an apartment complex in town, faces a misdemeanor charge of exposure of sexual organs following the April 28 incident, records show. Officers with the Boca Raton Police Department responded around 4:45 p.m. to a residence in the 2200 block of NE 4th Court after a report of indecent exposure and a bizarrely lewd act in progress.

According to a probable cause affidavit filed in court this week, the victim — whose name is being withheld — told police that a man wearing a red shirt and carrying a red backpack was standing in bushes outside her bedroom window. The man allegedly faced a neighboring property, where an adult woman and children were present, and began manipulating his exposed genitals in a sexual manner “to completion.” The victim, who described the incident as “appalling,” told officers she attempted to activate her sprinklers to get the man to leave, but he remained for several minutes before departing the area. The victim later provided video footage of the incident to police, investigators said.

Officers located a suspect matching the description a few blocks away near North Dixie Highway and detained him. Police identified the man as Lares Alonzo, who allegedly admitted, through a Spanish translator, to engaging in the act while watching a woman across the street and said he hoped she would not notice him, according to the affidavit. He also allegedly told police he was waiting to be picked up from a landscaping job. Investigators said the victim later positively identified Lares Alonzo as the individual she saw in her yard.

Lares Alonzo was taken into custody and transported to the Boca Raton Police Department before being booked into the Palm Beach County Jail. He remained there Friday in lieu of $2,000 bail.