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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 49-year-old Provo man is accused of exposing his private parts to a woman next to him on a flight to Salt Lake City.
Court documents made public this week show Stuart Ronald Clarke faces federal charges of lewd and obscene behavior on an aircraft. Documents show the woman told flight attendants that Clarke was fiddling with his private parts on a Delta flight from Minneapolis to Salt Lake City in November.
Clarke left the airport upon arriving but told investigators two days later that he accidentally rubbed peppermint oil on his private parts. He says he put the oil on his forehead for a headache and then went to the bathroom with the oil still on his hands.
He told investigators he unbuttoned his jeans as he became uncomfortable.
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