By Caitlin Schmidt
The Arizona Daily Star,
TUCSON, Ariz. — A 35-year-old man was arrested Monday after a two-month long sting by the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office identified him as a suspect in a series of indecent exposure incidents, authorities said.
David Joseph Vogler works as a full-time firefighter with the Mountain Vista Fire Department on Tucson’s northwest side and is a part-time emergency medical technician with Southwest Ambulance, according to a sheriff’s department news release.
On Feb. 7, Pinal County sheriff’s deputies received an indecent exposure report from the Dollar General store in Oracle, stating that a man entered the store, went into the restroom and emerged with his genitals exposed from the zipper of his pants, the release said.
While the deputy was taking the report on site, the store received a call from the suspect apologizing for his actions.
After checking with other stores in the area, deputies learned that a subject matching the man’s description had exposed his genitals to employees at four other stores in the area on Feb. 6, Feb. 7 and Feb. 9, the release said.
Through store video footage and telephone records, detectives identified Vogler as the suspect and his identity was confirmed by two of the victims.
Detectives learned that Vogler was working for Southwest Ambulance in the areas of San Manuel and Oracle on the dates of the offenses, and received a search warrant for his residence.
Vogler’s pickup truck also matched witnesses’ descriptions from the various locations, and was found parked in the driveway of his Eaglecrest home when detectives went to arrest him.
He was booked into the Pinal County jail on six counts of indecent exposure.
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