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A Mohave County man was arrested last week after two kids saw him pissing on the side of a building — and he may have to register as a sex offender as a result.
Mohave County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Trish Carter tells New Times 38-year-old Norman James Havatone was spotted at a convenience store near Thomas Avenue and Route 66 in Kingman just before 2 p.m. Friday. He was pissing on the side of the building.
His piss was interrupted, though, by two kids — ages 14 and 15 —
who were riding their bikes across a wash near the convenience store and
watched him answer nature’s call against the side of the building.
Police
were called, and Hayatone was taken into custody. He apologized to the
officers and explained that he just really had to go — a fairly reasonable explanation. Then he got
slammed with two felonies that could potentially force him to register
as a sex offender.
Carter says that there were no allegations of sexual indecency, but because the kids — who happened to ride by at the very moment Havatone happened
to be pissing on the building — were minors, the charges were upped to
felonies that could potentially get Havatone labeled as a sex offender.
That decision, Carter says, is up to the courts.
Havatone, meanwhile, was booked into the Mohave County jail on two felony counts of indecent exposure.
