A 24-year-old Davis man received three years of probation and a month of jail time Monday following his conviction on charges of indecent exposure and lewd acts in public, the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office announced.
Martin Rios also was sentenced by Yolo Superior Court Judge David Reed to serve 240 hours of community service and register as a sex offender for 10 years, as well as an additional 30-day jail term for violating his probation in a prior court case.
Rios’ conviction stems from an incident on the morning of June 28, 2018, prosecutors said in a news release.
“Rios was sitting in his car at Slide Hill Park in Davis when he called ‘good morning’ to a passing female jogger,” the statement said. “When the jogger turned around, she realized that Rios was sitting in the driver’s seat of his car with the door open and his pants down. According to the victim, Rios was staring at her intently, grinning,and masturbating.”
The jogger fled and called police the next day, resulting in Rios’ arrest. He was convicted by a Yolo County jury on Jan. 13.
Judge Reed also found Rios in violation of his probation in a similar crime he committed in April 2017 in the parking lot at First and E streets in Davis, where he masturbated in front of a woman who was parked nearby. He pleaded no contest in that case.
“Davis Police Department officers, who were dedicated to investigating multiple reports of public masturbation in Davis between 2017 and 2018, were able to link the description provided by Rios’ new victim to Rios’ prior act of public masturbation,” prosecutors said. “Through their investigation, they were able to present a photographic lineup to Rios’ new victim, who was able to identify Rios as the perpetrator of the crime.”