NORTH CAPE MAY — On Feb. 23, Lower Township police received a complaint from a woman in the 100 block of Clearwater Drive concerning the lewd activities of her elderly neighbor.
According to police, the woman stated that for the past month every time she left for work at approximately 6 am in the morning, after she unlocked her vehicle with her remote key which caused her car lights to flash, that her neighbor’s bedroom light would immediately come on. The woman stated that she then began to notice that her 69-year-old male neighbor was standing at the window when she left for work.
Several days ago, the woman noticed that the neighbor was in fact naked and committing a lewd act while watching her leave for work in the morning.
Acting on this information, police set up surveillance in the morning and confirmed the complainants sequence of events regarding the neighbor’s bedroom light coming on after the woman started her car for work. Officers confirmed that the subject was standing near the bedroom window when the woman left for work, but the officers did not have a clear view of the suspect.
On Friday morning, Feb. 27, Detectives Joseph Boyle and Edward Dougherty set up a surveillance of the suspect’s residence utilizing a video camera with zoom capabilities. At approximately 6 a.m., detectives video taped the suspect, identified as Robert Callahan, 69, of the 100 block of Clearwater Drive, standing naked in front of his bedroom window with the bedroom light on.
Detectives video taped the suspect committing a lewd act looking out his window, while the woman entered her car to leave for work. The video tape has been entered into evidence at the Lower Township Police Department.
Boyle and Dougherty then arrested the suspect at his residence and charged him with lewdness by performing lewd and offensive acts that he knew would likely be observed by other non-consenting persons that would be affronted or alarmed by his actions1 this being a disorderly persons offense.
Callahan was also charged on a warrant with bail set at $10,000., for one count of stalking by knowingly and purposely engaging In a course of alarming conduct directed at a specific person, this being a 4th degree crime.
The case was investigated by Patrolman William McPherson and Detectives Boyle and Dougherty.
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