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SEDONA, Ariz. (AP) -- Authorities in Arizona are looking for people who encountered a nude hiker from Utah.
The 61-year-old man is accused of telling women that he sheds clothes because he's "getting close to nature."
Yavapai County sheriff's spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn said deputies were called to a trail in Sedona on April 28 by two women who had been confronted by John Mosley. He offered to take pictures of the women.
Deputies eventually found the St. George, Utah, man after other people reported that he was hiding. He was arrested on indecent-exposure charges and released. Mosley could not be reached for comment in St. George.
"Our concern with this guy is that he actually confronted people, which is not usually the case with guys like this," D'Evelyn said. "This guy was brazen enough to approach two females."
Mosley told deputies that he didn't think it was illegal to hike naked in the public forest, the spokesman said.
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