Man arrested in connection to stalking and indecent exposure cases

JACKSON (WNE) — Alvaro Santiago Par-Toc, a 23-year-old Guatemalan living in Jackson, was arrested at his home Tuesday night by Jackson police. He was charged with violating stalking laws and cited for indecent exposure.

Santiago Par-Toc has allegedly exposed himself to female members of the community in four instances in the past two weeks.

The first incident was reported Sept. 12 from Smith’s grocery store on South Highway 89, according to the dispatch press log. The police affidavit identified the victims as two 17-year-old girls who first saw Santiago Par-Toc in the candy aisle, where he smiled at them and put his hand down his pants. He allegedly followed them around the store and repeatedly lowered his pants to expose himself.

“The victims reported this to a Smith’s employee and one of their guardians, who reported the incident to the police department,” the police affidavit stated.

“The defendant was also suspected of stalking and indecent exposure incidents which occurred later in September at Target and the bike path near the Garaman Park Tunnel,” the affidavit said.

When met at his home by police officers Tuesday night, the affidavit stated, Santiago Par-Toc admitted that the image from the video footage at Target was him. 

However, he gave a different account of the interaction with the two girls at Smith’s. He told officers he pulled up his shirt to wipe sweat off his face, and “he looked down and saw that his pants had fallen down . . .” 

He allegedly was unaware that his pants fell down multiple times in the other aisles when he wiped sweat away and said he was not following the girls, just that they happened to be in the same aisles.

The affidavit stated that the repeated encounters with the juvenile victims and the series of acts over a short period of time were evidence of “continuity of purpose.”

This story was published on September 26, 2024.