Naked Man Arrested Outside Malibu Restaurant

A 21-year-old Los Angeles man was arrested on suspicion of indecent exposure outside  in Malibu Sunday evening. The man allegedly took off his clothes and behaved erratically. 

Restaurant employee Paul Sawafdirat said that at about 7 p.m., a female co-worker alerted him of a strange man sitting on the patio, staring at her, not speaking and silently refusing to order. When Sawafdirat went to see what his co-worker was talking about, the man left the patio and a few moments later appeared in front of the restaurant.

Sawafdirat said he closed the restaurant doors to see what the man would do, and, Sawafdirat said, the man began to peer through the windows. He then entered the restaurant, at which point Sawafdirat called the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff's Station.

After this, the man began to take off his clothes, Sawafdirat said. The deputies told the man to put on his boxers, and when he refused, he was placed in the sheriff's vehicle without his clothes on. The man did not attempt to resist arrest, according to the deputies' report.

The man's name is being withheld due to mental health concerns, said Lt. Jim Royal, the sheriff's station's liaison to the city of Malibu.

Nearby, at approximately the same time, a three-vehicle collision caused traffic to back up in the eastbound lanes of Pacific Coast Highway. The collision occurred just west of Carbon Canyon Road. 

The driver alleged to be at fault rear-ended a car, forcing that car into the car in front of it, an officer from the sheriff's station said. When the airbag deployed in the vehicle alleged to have started the chain reaction, it injured the driver's hand, inducing light swelling. No other injuries were reported.

Editor's Note: The original version of this story stated that the witness said the man urinated on an officer. The witness actually said he "thinks" the man urinated on the officer. There is nothing about the man urinating in the sheriff's deputies' report.