A 32-year-old man accused of showing Temecula youths pornography in a public place was charged Thursday with annoying minors.
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Joshua Michael Wafer of Hemet was arrested Tuesday following a three- day Riverside County Sheriff's Department investigation.
Wafer, who is being held in lieu of $150,000 bail at the Byrd Detention Center, was slated to be arraigned on the misdemeanor count Thursday at the Southwest Justice Center.
According to sheriff's Sgt. Joe Narciso, on Saturday afternoon, deputies were alerted to an inappropriate encounter between a man and several teenagers in the 40000 block of Winchester Road, near Nicolas Road.
Narciso said the investigation revealed the teens had been minding their own business in the vicinity of Chaparral High School, when the man, later identified as Wafer, allegedly approached them, showing explicit images.
The victims broke off contact and reported what had occurred, the sergeant said.
He said investigators were able to confirm the defendant's identity, and an arrest warrant was served on Wafer at his residence on Auld Avenue, where he was taken into custody without incident.
The defendant was on bail at the time in connection with an indecent exposure arrest from November. That misdemeanor case is also awaiting resolution in court.
He has no documented prior felony convictions in Riverside County.
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