Suspect sought for alleged lewd acts before woman

Police are looking for a man who a woman claims exposed himself to her in a parking lot across the street from the Newport-Mesa Unified School District headquarters Tuesday.

The woman, who police say was a transient, was collecting cans in a shopping center at Baker and Bear streets when a man pulled up next to her in a small red pick-up truck and gave her some aluminum cans from his truck, police said.

When she went to leave, he told her he had more cans, police said.

When she approached, he opened his door and exposed himself and began masturbating in front of her and offered her money, police said. She told him to “get lost” and walked away, according to officials.

The man is described as a 5-foot-7 Latino man between 18 and 25 years old with short brown hair wearing black and brown clothes.

— Joseph Serna