A registered sex offender with nearly 30 arrests under his belt was arrested this month for repeatedly exposing himself to youth baseball players at a St. Augustine park, court papers show.
St. Augustine police units were dispatched to Eddie Vickers Park just before 7 p.m. on March 11 after receiving a 911 call about suspicious activity.
An arriving officer spoke to the father of a youth baseball player who said his son saw Scott Mitchell, 49, exposing himself to the team.
The minor told his parent said there was a “man standing by the fence with his penis out,” court papers state.
The father confronted Mitchell and told him to leave the area, which he did.
“About five minutes later, the witness advised he observed the man standing in a different spot, staring at the boys with his penis out again,” according to an arrest report
The players were 12-years-old, documents state.
An officer approached Mitchell, but he initially refused to be taken into custody.
“He actively attempted to pull his arm away from me, causing me to have to escort him to the ground,” the arresting officer wrote.
Mitchell was charged with lewd or lascivious exhibition to a victim under 16 and resisting arrest without violence.
Court records show that Mitchell is a registered sex offender and was previously convicted of lewd behavior with a minor in 1996.
Mitchell, who is listed as homeless, has more than two dozen arrests dating back to the later 1990s, including battery, theft and public intoxication busts.
