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Friday, December 5, 2025

Indecent Exposure Incident In Butler

On Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025, at approximately 9:28pm, Butler Officers responded to Sonic in reference to a customer exposing his genitals to carhops.

Officers arrived to Sonic and made contact with employees who advised that on three different occasions including shortly before calling on 12/3/25, a customer identified as Christian Dodson exposed his genitals to two different carhops, one of which being a juvenile, when his order was brought to his vehicle.

The employees advised officers that he was still in his vehicle at a stall. Officers then made contact with Dodson and took him into custody.

Dodson was charged with three counts of Indecent Exposure.



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