(Michigan City, IN) - A man with a prior history of lewd behavior is now accused of exposing himself to a female gas station clerk in Michigan City yesterday afternoon.

 

Immanuel Means, 33, is charged in La Porte Superior Court 4 with indecent exposure and theft, both Level 6 felonies.

 

According to court documents, Means was asking a female clerk at the Meijer gas station personal questions and called her pretty before exposing himself.

 

Police said he even placed his bare private parts on the counter and professed his love for her then followed her whenever she attempted to walk away.

 

Eventually, police said he left without paying for six packages of condoms, four bottles of lubricant and two other store items without paying for them.

 

Police said investigators recognized Means from prior encounters with him in surveillance camera footage of the incident.

 

Several hours later, police said officers responded to the nearby BP gas station where a man later identified as Means was reported to be naked.

 

Police said Means has prior convictions for public indecency in December of last year and from a case filed more than a decade ago.