Public Edgewater Masturbator Arrested For The Same In Hackensack, Police Say

Several weeks after being arrested twice in one day for public masturbation, a 62-year-old man is back in custody for similar antics in another Bergen County city.

Mark Schmitt.
Photo Credit: *Edgewater PD*

Cecilia Levine

08/06/2024 2:15 p.m.

As reported by Daily Voice, Mark Schmitt, of Hackensack, was arrested in Edgewater for masturbating publicly once at 7:30 a.m. and again at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, July 17.

On Monday evening, Aug. 5, Schmitt pleasured himself in front of a 25-year-old woman on a transit bus, Hackensack Police Capt. Michael Antista said.

Officers arrested him on the corner of Essex Street and Prospect Avenue, Antista said.

Schmitt was again lodged in the Bergen County Jail and charged with criminal sexual contact.

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