Police Issue Warning on Illicit Sex in Park
The San Diego Police Department is issuing a warning to those engaging in sexual activity at Marion Bear Park near Regents Road.
Since Feb. 12, the department has arrested 88 men at the park, also called San Clemente Canyon Park, for sexual battery, indecent exposure, sodomy, oral copulation, and other similar offenses, said police spokesman Matt Weathersby.
Weathersby stressed that the arrests were made because the sexual activity took place in public.
The department has sent officers, usually plainclothes, to the park nearly every day to make the arrests, Weathersby said. In some cases, officers have been solicited and grabbed by men at the park to engage in sexual activity.
“The problem doesn’t lie with the mainstream gay community,” Weathersby said. “Fifty percent or more of those arrested were married with children. Their biggest fear is that their wives will find out about the arrests. The word is, don’t come to the park to engage in sexual activity.”
Most of the arrests have been made during lunchtime hours and between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., he said.
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