Democratic chairman charged in public urinationOctober 04, 2007
New Windsor -- 2:10 p.m. -- The chairman of the Orange County Democratic Committee, Jonathan Jacobson, was charged last night with exposure after he pulled over his white convertible at the exit of a Quick Chek gas station, ran over to the passenger side of his car and urinated on the lawn next to Union Avenue.
That got him noticed by two New Windsor patrol officers, as well as a Quick Chek employee, who was outside of the store at 9:40 p.m. when it happened, according to a police report. Police approached Jacobson as he got back in the car. An officer asked Jacobson if he knew why he had been stopped, and Jacobson replied: "Because I went on the side of the road." Jacobson, 54, a Newburgh resident, told police he had just come from an Orange County legislative committee meeting, that he had stopped off for gas and that he needed to urinate. He did not appear to have been drinking, according to the report.
A call to the Quick Chek confirmed that the 24-hour convenience store inside did have accessible public bathrooms at the time. Officers ticketed Jacobson for exposure of a person, a violation. He is due in court on Oct. 23. Jacobson's attorney Paul Trachte responded for Jacobson, who did not return calls. "Obviously he had to go very badly, and he pulled over," Trachte said. "It was late at night."
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