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Accused Police Chief-Turned Flasher Pleads Not Guilty
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Paul Lawrence Wadley, the former Huntington Park police chief who is accused of flashing women and leaving sexually explicit photos of himself in a popular Orange County park, appeared in court yesterday for the first time, entering a plea of not guilty in his case, according to KTLA. Wadley, 56, was linked to a series of photos left on cars and trails at Anaheim's Toyon Park by the fingerprints on the images. Initially, Wadley was out of the country, however he was not considered a fugitive.
The investigation began when female park-goers reported to area authorities that they had found photos of genitalia left on their windshields or strewn on the trails; another woman came forward to say "a man exposed himself as he walked past her on a hiking trail near Toyon Park on Thanksgiving day."
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