
Roger Lydell Ricks is facing a serious allegation — one that landed him in jail.
The 39-year-old Williamsburg man was booked into the Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail Thursday charged with obscene sexual display.
In a nutshell – witnesses have alleged seeing Ricks masturbating in public.
Police said officers were sent to the corner of Palace Green and West Nicholson streets at around 11:30 a.m. Thursday on a report of a man masturbating in public.
Officers talked to the witnesses who claimed Ricks was doing the deed “in public view near a tree.”
The same witnesses provided officers with a detailed description of the suspect and the bicycle he was riding on, police said.
Police said they found a man nearby matching the description given to officers.
That man was later identified as Ricks – police said the witnesses identified him as the one they saw masturbating.

