A 57-year-old Pahokee man is facing a felony charge after a woman told Palm Beach County deputies he exposed himself to her outside a Walmart in Royal Palm Beach, in an incident investigators say echoes a similar arrest from 2024. Ted Carl Rodarm Jr. was identified through a photo lineup and a license plate that detectives say matched the one documented in that earlier case.
According to CBS12, Rodarm faces a felony charge of exposure of sexual organs stemming from the incident at the Walmart located at 9990 Belvedere Road. The woman told deputies she saw Rodarm standing outside a parked vehicle with his pants partially open, and she initially thought he was adjusting his clothing or getting ready to urinate. Investigators say he then turned toward her with his genitals exposed.
The woman told deputies the exposure lasted about 30 seconds or less. When confronted, Rodarm allegedly apologized repeatedly before leaving, the station reports. He opened his trunk before driving away, something the woman believed was an attempt to block her view of his license plate — but she managed to photograph it anyway, and that photo helped detectives identify him.
Photo Lineup and a Matching License Plate
The Walmart witness identified Rodarm in a photo lineup on October 27, per the same account. Detectives also reviewed surveillance images and license plate recognition footage linking his vehicle to the area, and found that the plate matched the one documented during a 2024 Costco case involving Rodarm. The cw34.com reports the arrest came two years after that earlier Costco arrest.
Rodarm was arrested on the felony charge listed as a second or subsequent offense, though CBS12 notes that enhancement remains subject to verification of a qualifying prior conviction. Under Florida law, unlawful exposure of sexual organs is defined as exposing or exhibiting sexual organs in public in a vulgar or indecent manner, and a second or subsequent violation is classified as a third-degree felony.
A Pattern Dating Back Years
Court records show Rodarm had previously been arrested in connection with similar incidents, and his criminal history dates back to the 1990s, per the previous arrest affidavit cited by CBS12. In July 2024, Rodarm was arrested after a woman reported seeing him expose himself and masturbate in a Costco parking lot on Southern Boulevard in Royal Palm Beach. A month before that, a 77-year-old woman reported a similar encounter in a Winn-Dixie parking lot, accusing Rodarm of exposing himself while looking toward her.
That Winn-Dixie case was built in part on surveillance footage reviewed on June 25, 2024, which the station says showed a white male, later identified as Rodarm, engaging in suspicious behavior near his vehicle — a white Toyota sedan — corroborating the witness account. Palm Beach County court records and a PBSO arrest affidavit, as detailed by CBS12, list a string of prior arrests involving alleged exposure to children, masturbation in a shopping-center food court, sex with a minor and masturbation in a hotel parking lot.
Past Convictions on the Books
Court records show Rodarm was convicted in 1998 of a lewd or lascivious offense involving a child, and in 2022 he was convicted of failing to register as a sexual offender, according to CBS12. Florida law requires a sexual offender to report in person at the sheriff's office within 48 hours of establishing a residence in the state or being released from custody or supervision, under state statute.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office reported that Rodarm faced the felony charge following the Walmart investigation. The case remains tied to the broader pattern of allegations compiled across the Costco, Winn-Dixie and now Walmart incidents, all within the Royal Palm Beach area over the past two years.
