Negro with history of sex crimes accused of spying on young boy in forest preserve bathroom

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Man with history of sex crimes accused of spying on young boy in forest preserve bathroom
Friday, July 2nd 2021

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BOYDS, Md. (7News) — A man with a 30-year history of sexual offenses in Maryland was caught spying on a 12-year-old boy inside a bathroom at Black Hill Regional Park in Boyds, police allege in court documents obtained by 7News.

Tarren Andre Dikes, 50, of Clarksburg, is charged with one count of visual surveillance in a private area.

Around 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 23, a father called 911 to report a peeping tom in a restroom near the forest preserve's boat rental area. The man's 12-year-old son had been using the bathroom when he looked up and saw a man's face staring down at him from a neighboring stall. The boy promptly exited the bathroom and told his father what had happened.

The father entered the bathroom and reportedly intercepted Dikes who was wearing a hat, Under Armour shirt, and Caterpillar boots.

"Please don't call the police. I won't do this again. I will leave," Dikes allegedly told the boy's father before driving away in a red Honda Civic. The boy's father managed to make a note of the car's license plate number.

Maryland-National Capital Park Police — which patrols Black Hill Regional Park — ran the license plate in the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration database and got a hit for Dikes.

A detective created a photo array and then asked the boy's father to view it at a park police substation in Sandy Spring. The boy's father pointed to Dikes' photo during that meeting, which police audio and video recorded.

"The men's room has two urinals and two stalls," police noted in their statement of charges against Dikes, who is 5-foot-8. "The stalls have locking doors, and partitions between them that are approximately six feet tall. In order to see over the partitions, a person would need to stand on the toilet."
 
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