Man Exposes Himself to Teen at Library: West Hartford Police

WEST HARTFORD, CT — A Hartford man with a history of arrests has been charged with exposing himself to a 17-year-old girl at the Noah Webster Library in West Hartford on Tuesday evening.

Police responded to the scene at about 8:30 p.m. after a teen reported that she was inside the library when a man began hovering around her and acting strange.

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She told police the man continued to bother her although she ignored him and he then “fully exposed his genitals to her while making lewd movements,” according to the police report.

The man then left the library and was later located at Farmington Avenue and Raymond Road, according to police.

Anthony Lawrence, 28, of 433 Woodland Street in Hartford, was arrested and charged with public indecency and breach of peace.

Lawrence has been arrested 15 times in the last two years and has also been trespassed from the town library and, by his own admission, from most of the libraries in Hartford, according to Lt. Ted Stoneburner.

Lawrence is being held on a $7,500 bond.

Pictured: Anthony Lawrence, 28, of Hartford / West Hartford Police Department