{"id":53170,"date":"2025-01-07T15:16:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T20:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=53170"},"modified":"2025-01-07T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T20:17:11","slug":"repeat-offender-arrested-for-lewd-behavior-at-lakeland-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/01\/07\/repeat-offender-arrested-for-lewd-behavior-at-lakeland-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeat Offender Arrested For Lewd Behavior at Lakeland Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Michael Bandy, 56, was arrested at Duff Park on Sunday, January 6th, around 12:23 PM.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"7c6359\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"341\" height=\"444\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-75-3-png.webp?resize=341%2C444&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53171 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #7c6359; width:249px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-75-3-png.webp?w=341&amp;ssl=1 341w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-75-3-png.webp?resize=230%2C300&amp;ssl=1 230w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe arrest a lot of people for not keeping their hands to themselves, but in the case of Michael Bandy of Lakeland, he was arrested by PCSO for keeping his hands to himself but doing things with his hands that he shouldn\u2019t have been doing,\u201d said PCSO on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A PCSO deputy responded to the park\u2019s playground after receiving a report that a man had exposed himself and was engaging in inappropriate behavior in the presence of a woman and her 4-year-old child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not Bandy\u2019s first encounter with law enforcement for similar offenses. His criminal record shows two prior convictions for exposure of sexual organs in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following his arrest, Bandy was transported to the Polk County Jail and charged with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Exposure of Sexual Organs with Prior Conviction (F3):\u00a0This charge is enhanced due to Bandy\u2019s previous convictions for the same offense.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lewd &amp; Lascivious Behavior in the Presence of a Minor (F2):\u00a0A felony charge reflecting the presence of a child during the alleged act.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bandy has been officially trespassed from Duff Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Michael Bandy, 56, was arrested at Duff Park on Sunday, January 6th, around 12:23 PM. \u201cWe arrest a lot of people for not&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"12","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMDFcL1NjcmVlbnNob3QtNzUtMy1wbmcud2VicD9maXQ9MzQxJTJDNDQ0JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiUmVwZWF0IE9mZmVuZGVyIEFycmVzdGVkIEZvciBMZXdkIEJlaGF2aW9yIGF0IExha2VsYW5kIFBhcmsiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.O7nPr4Afg6FK5bYlcKY4vFVf8Nery48uvj_-37SQ2bEMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":53171,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-75-3-png.webp","type":"image\/png"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[10711],"class_list":["post-53170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-repeat-offender-arrested-for-lewd-behavior-at-lakeland-park"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53172,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53170\/revisions\/53172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}