WESTFIELD – Some say that everybody has the right to seek pleasure wherever it can be found but the parking lot of a fraternal organization may not always be the best choice.
City police were notified at 7:42 p.m. Saturday that a man whose pants were down and whose genitals were fully exposed appeared to be passed out in a Washington Street parking lot.
Officer Michael Csekovsky was the first officer to arrive and observed a minivan parked in a fraternal lodge lot.
He reports that, when he approached, he observed that the vehicle was occupied by a man reclining in the front seat whose sweatpants were lowered to his knees and whose hand on his genitals did not obscure them.
Csekovsky reports that the man did not rouse when he knocked on the window and when he opened the door and prodded the man he was difficult to awaken.
The officer reports that when the man did open his eyes he looked to be bewildered but smiled at him.
The man complied when Csekovsky instructed him to pull up his pants but, when asked his name, was unintelligible.
The officer also found himself unable to understand the man’s responses to any other questions and spoke with the staff at the bar of the nearby lodge.
Csekovsky was told that the man had been refused admittance to the bar, not only because he is not a member of the lodge, but also because he was obviously highly intoxicated.
The officer was told that the man had returned to his minivan but the lodge member in control of the premises observed him entering the vehicle and removed the man’s keys from the vehicle for fear that he might otherwise attempt to drive.
The man was seen in his minivan by three women, one of whom said that the sight was something she would never forget.
Csekovsky said that the man was taken into protective custody and transported to the station.
A short time later, the man’s wife came to the station to get her husband but, before he left the lobby, he said that he had to use the bathroom. When the man did not emerge, the door was unlocked and he was found on the floor unresponsive. The man was transported to Noble Hospital for treatment.
The man will be summoned to Westfield District Court to answer a charge of open and gross lewdness, a subsequent offense.
Newspaper records show that, Oleg A. Igumnov, then 33, of 16 Sheldon Ave., the same address to which the minivan in question is registered to, was arrested for open and gross lewdness in July of 2011.
