A 36-year-old man who reportedly exposed himself and masturbated in front of several UC Berkeley students outside their fraternity was charged and arrested, the Berkeley Police Department said in a recent news release.
According to the department’s Facebook post, the incident took place on Tuesday, July 19 around 6 p.m on the 2400 block of Piedmont Avenue, a strip known as "Frat row" because it's home to multiple Cal fraternities and sororities. The police say that after students confronted the man, Deante Davis, he walked outside and started masturbating on the front patio with his genitals exposed and pants down. When police searched him, they found methamphetamines as well as “drug and sex paraphernalia.” On July 21, Davis was subsequently charged with indecent exposure, burglary, and providing false information to an officer among other enhancements.
A similar incident occurred earlier this month on the same street. On July 14, Berkeleyside reported that a homeless man broke into a Cal sorority and masturbated in a student’s room at the foot of her bed. After he was reportedly chased out of the house, he made lewd remarks to two other female students when he climbed into their house nearby. Later, the outlet says he was charged with felony-grade sex crimes and “hot prowl” burglary – burglaries that take place in a home while the resident is still there.
Davis is currently in custody at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin and is scheduled for arraignment on Monday.
According to the department’s Facebook post, the incident took place on Tuesday, July 19 around 6 p.m on the 2400 block of Piedmont Avenue, a strip known as "Frat row" because it's home to multiple Cal fraternities and sororities. The police say that after students confronted the man, Deante Davis, he walked outside and started masturbating on the front patio with his genitals exposed and pants down. When police searched him, they found methamphetamines as well as “drug and sex paraphernalia.” On July 21, Davis was subsequently charged with indecent exposure, burglary, and providing false information to an officer among other enhancements.
A similar incident occurred earlier this month on the same street. On July 14, Berkeleyside reported that a homeless man broke into a Cal sorority and masturbated in a student’s room at the foot of her bed. After he was reportedly chased out of the house, he made lewd remarks to two other female students when he climbed into their house nearby. Later, the outlet says he was charged with felony-grade sex crimes and “hot prowl” burglary – burglaries that take place in a home while the resident is still there.
Davis is currently in custody at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin and is scheduled for arraignment on Monday.
