Article 5P3SZ Person charged with indecent exposure at LA spa after viral Instagram video

Person charged with indecent exposure at LA spa after viral Instagram video

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Lois Beckett and Sam Levin in Los Angeles
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Los Angeles authorities have charged a 52-year-old with indecent exposure at a popular Korean spa that was the subject of a viral Instagram post earlier this summer.

The LA police department (LAPD) announced late on Thursday that it had put out an arrest warrant for Darren Merager, who is now facing five felony counts of indecent exposure at Wi Spa in the Koreatown neighborhood. The charges, filed on Monday, come two months after a viral Instagram video from a woman who filmed herself confronting Wi Spa staff about seeing a man" naked in front of women and girls in the women's section of the facility.

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