Man accused of masturbating in front of children on Miami-Dade bus

Edwin Lee (MDCR)

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Police arrested a 43-year-old man after accusing him of masturbating in front of three teenage girls on a Miami-Dade Metrobus on Tuesday afternoon.

According to an arrest report, Edwin Tyrone Lee looked at the girls as he exposed himself and masturbated on the bus at around 1 p.m. as it traveled near Southwest 112th Avenue and 248th Street in the county’s Princeton area.

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Miami-Dade police said the girls, two of whom were 14 and the other 16, notified the driver, who called police.

Authorities said officers took Lee, who is homeless, into custody; he invoked his right to an attorney.

Lee, facing two counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition on a child and one count of indecent exposure, was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $15,000 bond, jail records show.


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