Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Benjamin Franklin Cunningham, 35, was arrested on November 25 after allegedly exposing himself twice to a cashier at the Wawa on E. University Avenue.

On November 16, a Gainesville Police Department officer responded to Wawa (1007 E. University Avenue), where a cashier said Cunningham, who she described as a regular customer, exposed himself to her at the register and then came back a second time and intentionally exposed himself again. She said he tried to speak to her a third time to apologize, but she told him to leave the store.

The officer reported that surveillance video clearly showed Cunningham exposing himself at the register twice; later, Cunningham could be seen staring at the victim from outside the business.

Cunningham was charged via sworn complaint with a second or subsequent offense of indecent exposure, and he was arrested on November 25.

Cunningham’s criminal history includes five felony convictions (three violent) and 17 misdemeanor convictions (four violent). He served nine months in the Alachua County Jail in 2021-2022 after pleading to indecent exposure, loitering/prowling, drug possession, and violating a previous sentence of probation for indecent exposure. He is currently being held on $15,000 bail.

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