A 59-year-old man was arrested at an Oklahoma City Walgreens after officers responding to a bathroom disturbance call found him asleep on the floor of a restroom stall with his pants unfastened and his genitals exposed, according to the incident report. Robbie Randall was booked on one count of indecent exposure, but records show he ultimately faces only a misdemeanor charge.
Oklahoma City police were called to the store on Tuesday, as first reported by KOKH, which reviewed the incident report describing the scene inside the restroom. Per police, Randall had been caught inappropriately touching himself at the store before officers found him passed out in the stall.
Cash, Lotion and a Doll Turned Up Beside Him
Along with Randall, officers documented a significant amount of cash and coins scattered around the stall, the report states. Also recovered nearby were a bottle of lotion, a Bratz-style doll, and a yoga book, though the report does not explain how the items ended up in the Walgreens bathroom.
Booked for Indecent Exposure, Charged With a Misdemeanor
Randall's arrest was logged as one count of indecent exposure, yet he faces only a misdemeanor rather than the felony version of that charge, a gap that turns on intent under Oklahoma law. Under Oklahoma Statutes Title 21, Section 1021, felony indecent exposure carries a sentence of 30 days to 10 years in prison and fines between $500 and $20,000, but only when prosecutors can prove the exposure was willful, lewd, and driven by lustful intent.
That evidentiary bar is spelled out in uniform jury instructions from the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, which require proof beyond a reasonable doubt that an exposure reflected sexual intent rather than an accident or non-sexual disorientation. A felony conviction also carries mandatory registration as a Level 1 sex offender for at least 15 years with annual address verification, according to Coventon Criminal Defense.
Oklahoma's Line Between Felony Exposure and Lesser Offenses
Prosecutors in cases that don't meet that lewd-intent threshold can instead pursue misdemeanor alternatives, such as outraging public decency under Title 21, Section 22, which covers gross public disturbances that fall short of felony sex crimes, per Justia Law. Lawmakers drew a similar distinction in 2011, when an amendment separated public urination from felony indecent exposure specifically to keep non-sexual public acts from triggering automatic sex offender registration, according to the Wirth Law Office.
Oklahoma County Leans on Diversion Over Jail Time
Oklahoma County has increasingly relied on alternatives to incarceration for cases involving erratic public behavior tied to mental health, including the Court-Ordered Outpatient Program and services through the Diversion Hub, which let qualifying arrestees complete a year of community treatment instead of jail time. Those efforts have coincided with a broader decline in local bookings: total admissions to the Oklahoma County Detention Center fell 44 percent between 2015 and 2022, largely due to fewer municipal and misdemeanor arrests, according to the Crime and Justice Institute.
The Oklahoma City Police Department, which responded to the Walgreens call, is a roughly 1,169-officer force covering nearly 700 square miles across five substations, per the City of Oklahoma City. Misdemeanor bookings in the county typically follow a preset administrative bail schedule that can allow release from jail before a formal arraignment before a district judge, according to The Urbanic Law Firm.
