A woman in Tamarac says a stranger has been showing up everywhere she doesn’t want him — first at her job in Lauderhill, then at her own front door. Now Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are asking the public to help put a name to his face, after the harassment allegedly escalated this month to the man exposing himself outside her home.
According to detectives, the ordeal began in late August, when the man started approaching the woman repeatedly at her workplace in Lauderhill. As reported by CBS News Miami, he later turned up uninvited at her Tamarac residence; she told him to leave, and he did.
That should have been the end of it. Instead, Tamarac Talk reports the man’s behavior escalated in mid-October, when he returned to her workplace and approached her again. This time she pulled out her phone and photographed him before he fled the area.
Alleged Exposure at Her Own Front Door
Later that same day, detectives say, the man showed up at the woman’s Tamarac home and touched himself inappropriately in front of her. It’s the detail that transformed a workplace harassment complaint into an active search for a stranger who now knows where she lives.
With the images the woman captured in hand, BSO detectives released photos of the man publicly, hoping someone recognizes him. The case echoes another recent Broward stalking matter: the same local outlet previously reported that 26-year-old Ishmel Oneil Brown, a Lauderhill man, was arrested in September after allegedly harassing a Wawa cashier at her workplace over June and July, then leaving a handwritten love note at her Tamarac apartment door before his arrest at his residence. That case shows how similar patterns of workplace-to-home escalation have played out before in the same cities — though BSO has not linked the two cases.
How to Report Information
Anyone with information about the man’s identity or the incidents is asked to contact BSO’s Tamarac District Detective Jordan Pacheco at 954-247-6058, or to submit a tip through the SaferWatch app. Tips can also be sent anonymously to Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS (8477), through browardcrimestoppers.org, or by dialing *TIPS (8477) from any cellphone in the United States.
Anonymous tips that lead to an arrest may qualify for a reward of up to $5,000. Under Florida law, willfully, maliciously and repeatedly following or harassing another person is classified as stalking, a first-degree misdemeanor, according to the Florida Legislature; stalking that involves a credible threat rises to aggravated stalking, a third-degree felony. The statute separately defines harassment as a course of conduct directed at a specific person that causes substantial emotional distress and serves no legitimate purpose.
No arrest has been announced in this case, and the man remains unidentified as detectives continue to rely on the public for leads.
