A 59-year-old Massachusetts man was arrested last month after he was apparently driving around to multiple communities outside Boston exposing himself to girls he spotted walking in the area.

Paul St. Martin was already a convicted sex offender, according to Whitman Police Chief Timothy Hanlon, when his department charged him with open and gross lewdness after he allegedly exposed himself to two young girls who had been walking in the area of Route 18 and Route 27 on July 27, the Fall River Reporter said. Officers responded to the call but were unable to find the suspect.

The girls said the suspect was a man in his 50s in a white sedan with Indiana plates. He did not speak and did not leave the vehicle, they said.

The officers viewed surveillance footage in the area and determined the vehicle was a Chevy Malibu. The issued a Be On the Look Out alert to area agencies.

The next day, a nearby police department notified Hanlon officers that a similar event took place there, and the victims got the car’s license plate number. The investigators learned that the car had been rented by St. Martin and got his home address, where they arrested him.

The officers have since learned that St. Martin has allegedly exposed himself in similar incidents in Marshfield, Braintree, and Belmont. Arrest warrants have been secured in Braintree and Marshfield.

According to a memorandum filed in 2020, St. Martin was “convicted of several sexual offenses, starting with noncontact offenses, each increasing in severity, and culminating in the rape of his stepdaughter.”

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[Featured image: Paul St. Martin/Hanson Police Department]