Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Moheet Mohan Kanolkar, 33, was arrested yesterday morning after a passerby reported that a man was hiding in the bushes in Depot Park; a police officer reported that Kanolkar pulled up his pants as officers approached, had a bus ticket showing that he had just arrived from Atlanta, and had no identification.
At about 7:46 a.m. on April 22, Gainesville Police Department officers were conducting an increased patrol in the Depot Park area due to recent incidents of sexual exposure in that area. A passerby reportedly approached an officer and said someone was hiding in the bushes along the walking trail and that person’s behavior seemed strange. The officer noted that this behavior “is consistent with frequent exposure of sexual organs incidents that the Gainesville Police Department has investigated recently.”…