Oakland County Official Charged with Indecent Exposure

NOVI, MICHIGAN – An Oakland County commissioner has been charged with indecent exposure, accused of being naked and having sex on a city sidewalk, police said Tuesday.

Commissioner Kim Capello, R-Novi, appeared before Novi District Judge Dennis Powers on Tuesday on the charge, a misdemeanor punishable by up to 93 days in jail and fines.

Capello, 56, was released pending a June 3 sentencing, but court records did not indicate whether he had entered a plea. He could not be reached for comment, and his attorney did not return a call from The Detroit News.

Police had little to say about the April 18 incident, other than to confirm Capello, a former Novi councilman, and a woman were questioned about 2 a.m. by a police officer following a complaint by a resident of “two people in stages of undress” near the rear parking lot of The Post Bar on Main Street in Novi.

“The officer responded to the complaint and wrote up a report of indecent exposure, which was reviewed by our city attorney,” said Novi Deputy Chief Thomas Lindberg.

The resident said he was driving by the bar and called police about “two naked females” on the sidewalk near a residential area just a few feet off of Pennsylvania Avenue. The man said he had his children in the back of his car and was concerned they might have seen a sexual act.

When police responded, the officer reported shining a spotlight on two figures leaning on a brick wall who “looked as if they were engaged in sexual intercourse.”

Police said Capello identified himself and immediately pulled on his clothes, but the woman denied the clothes on the ground next to them belonged to her. The officer said both appeared intoxicated and both said they had been drinking.

When officers attempted to escort the woman to her address nearby, she fell on the grass and had to be helped up, according to the report.

When questioned, the woman told police that she had engaged in consensual sex.

Courtesy DET News

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