Palmer man charged with indecent exposure

By ANDREW WELLNER

Frontiersman.com

PALMER — When officers arrived the 44-year-old man was standing at the customer service counter, naked from the waist down, save the socks on his feet.

The store manager “was standing in front of the male attempting to block him from public view,” according to a statement Palmer Police Department Officer Colt Graham filed in case against Mihai Cosma.

Graham writes that just after 7 p.m., Jan. 19, after taking the man into the parking lot and putting him in an Alaska State Trooper car, he and Officer Philip Krauss went back in to talk to the store manager.

The manager “told the (the man) he can not be doing this in her store and he needed to leave because there were children there and he said, ‘I am not leaving the store and I will not put my pants on.’ (The manager) told him again that he needed to put his pants on or leave the store and he said, ‘no, I am going to wait here for the police,’” Graham writes. The manager “also said she observed a mother turn and walk away while covering her young child’s eyes in order to avoid the child seeing the male.”

Graham wrote that officers identified Cosma by discharge paperwork from Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility — court records show a conviction in November 2012 for felony destruction of property — and Alaska Sex Offender Registry paperwork.

Graham writes that a check with authorities in Colorado Springs, Colo., show that Cosma was convicted for indecent exposure there in 2007.

Indecent exposure is the charge he now faces in Alaska. He was jailed at Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility on $1,000 and he’ll need to find someone to watch over him before he can be released. Cosma was still there as of Monday afternoon.