On Monday, April 9, 2012, a female resident of Stonehaven’s Valley Haven Drive reported that as she was making her way home from work, walking along McAlpine Park Drive at its intersection with Thermal Road at approximately 5:45 PM, when she noticed that a small red “sporty car” traveling on Thermal Road toward Monroe Road stopped at the stop sign posted at that intersection.
Upon stopping, the driver of the vehicle, who she described as a lite skinned African-American male, possibly in his early 20’s, with curly brown hair wearing a white t-shirt and black pants, leaned over toward the passenger side of the vehicle and asked through the open window of the car if she could help him with directions.
The resident said that when she bent down to speak to the driver she saw that he had his pants unzipped with his penis exposed and that he was masturbating.
Upon seeing this the resident said she immediately walked across Thermal Road (to the side heading toward Charter) and began walking toward Valley Haven Drive to get to her home.
The resident said that after she crossed Thermal Road the driver turned the car around (heading toward Charter as she was) and pulled up next to her. She said the driver again leaned over to speak to her through the passenger window of the car and tried to tell her that he was a nice guy. At this point, the resident said that she was scared and retrieved a container of mace from her purse and raised it up and began to spray it toward the driver, but the driver saw the container and stepped on the car’s accelerator causing the mace to hit the passenger side rear of the car.
The resident said the driver fled in his car toward Charter and that she did not see the vehicle come back toward her on Thermal Road as she continued walking to her home.
Anyone seeing a vehicle matching the description given, a small red “sporty car”, and being driven by an individual matching the description given, a lite skinned African-American male, possibly in his early 20’s, with curly brown hair wearing a white t-shirt and black pants, should immediately contact the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Dept. by dialing 911 and then the Stonehaven Community Patrol by dialing 980-297-8446.
The East Charlotte Area Patrol 