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SOUTH PORTLAND -- Police charged a South Portland man with exposing himself to children at a Maine Mall business Sunday afternoon, but not before an altercation, a foot chase and a violent brush with the rear window of a police cruiser.
Police said the 39-year-old man pulled down his pants at Chuck E. Cheese's -- a restaurant and entertainment business geared toward children -- sometime before 2:22 p.m. When the restaurant manager told the man to leave, the suspect punched the manager and fled.
South Portland Police Lt. Christopher Cook said restaurant employees, customers and mall security guards chased the suspect through a parking lot and into a wooded area several hundred feet from the restaurant.
The suspect stopped after someone threatened to shoot him, but no one involved in the chase was carrying a gun, Cook said. Police arrived and arrested the suspect, who cooperated at first and was placed in the back seat of Officer Kevin Battle's police cruiser.
Battle said that as he started to drive to the county jail, the handcuffed suspect "freaked out" in the car for no apparent reason and knocked out the passenger-side rear window with his forehead.
Battle turned the car around and headed back to the scene of the arrest, where other officers could help him. Meanwhile, the suspect poked his head out the window and somehow managed to wiggle out of his seat belt. When the car stopped, the man dived out of the back seat and smacked the pavement, police and witnesses said.
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