(La Porte County, IN) - A La Porte County man answered knocking on his door to find a man standing there in his birthday suit. At about 10 p.m. last night, La Porte County Police officer Justin Gorny was dispatched to Pinhook Bog, where a nearby citizen reported opening his door to the knocking of a man who happened to be completely nude.
He said the naked man turned and took off running toward Pinhook Bog.
Gorny and several more officers discussing the situation in the parking lot of the nature area heard a male voice coming from the direction of a nearby woods.
The officers, using trails to move closer to the sounds, located the suspect still without a stitch of clothing on about 75 yards into the woods.
Geoffrey Manthey, 40, of Michigan City told officers he was attempting to locate his cell phone before being arrested on a charge of Public Nudity. The Class A misdemeanor offense could bring him as much as a one-year jail sentence.
Pinhook Bog, a National Natural Landmark and part of Indiana Dunes National Park, covers nearly 600 acres along Wozniak Road in rural Coolspring Township.
