‘Thrill-seeking’ Polk County deputy caught pleasuring himself in public resigns from sheriff’s office: PCSO

DAVENPORT, Fla. – A Polk County deputy found himself on the other side of the law after investigators say he was touching himself naked in an open area of ​​a Davenport apartment complex.

Investigators say Polk County Sheriff’s Deputy Rodney Isaiah Williams, III, 20, admitted to going out of his apartment and touching himself “for fun,” then said he “did something stupid.”

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Williams was arrested and quickly resigned from the sheriff’s office. PCSO said he would have been fired if he had not resigned.

“This vulgar and indecent behavior by one of our former members of the agency is completely unacceptable, not to mention illegal,” said Sheriff Grady Judd. “We will never tolerate such immoral and illegal conduct. That is why he was immediately arrested.”

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Williams was charged with one count of unlawful exposure of sexual organs.

He was hired as a deputy sheriff in November 2023 and was off duty when the incident occurred.

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