Police try to catch flashing bicyclist

Associated Press

DELAWARE, OHIO

Police in a city outside Columbus are searching for a man who has exposed himself to women four times in recent weeks while on a bicycle.

The Columbus Dispatch reports a police captain in the city of Delaware says the bicyclist has been exposing himself since mid-July in parking lots and along a bike path.

Capt. Adam Moore calls the incidents “an assault.”

The first reported flashing occurred July 13 when the man exposed himself to a shopkeeper in the city’s downtown. Three incidents have been reported since then, including one Wednesday by a 23-year-old woman running along a bike path.

The man has been described as in his 20s or early 30s, slender, with blond or red hair, and possibly riding a mountain bike.