Flasher Caught!

Looks like he's not too sorry about what he did:

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No biggie, sez perv suspect

By HELEN PETERSON
and TRACY CONNOR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

What him, worry?

With a smirk on his face and a sneer in his voice, accused subway pervert Dan Hoyt shrugged off the sex charges against him as he left a Manhattan courthouse yesterday.

"It's a misdemeanor," the Manhattan restaurateur arrogantly told a Daily News reporter after being arraigned on four counts of public lewdness.

Hoyt, 43, who owns two raw-food eateries called Quintessence, is accused of exposing himself to four women on subway trains and platforms between October and August.

One victim was appalled at his glib remark. "What he has done was so disrespectful to women," said Thao Nguyen, 23, who helped cops catch Hoyt.

"Perhaps his smug attitude and total lack of remorse may influence the judge's sentence? If there's ever been an example of a guy who deserves the full three-month prison sentence, he's it."

When the flasher started fondling himself on an R train on Aug. 19, Nguyen snapped a photo of him with her camera phone and posted it on the Internet.

After the picture ran on the front page of The News last week, dozens of tipsters called to say the blond-haired man with the creepy grin was Hoyt.

Hoyt lay low and avoided the cops for three days but surrendered Wednesday and was picked out of a lineup by Nguyen and three other women.

At his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court, his lawyer argued he should be released without bail - and the judge asked if he had turned himself in at the first opportunity.

The attorney, Michael Bachner, said he did, but the prosecutor quickly corrected the record.

"Once the defendant was identified he did not immediately turn himself in," Assistant District Attorney Priscilla Steward said, "but he did eventually surrender."

Judge Neil Ross set bail at $5,000, which was posted by Hoyt's business partner, Tolentin Chan, who also is his ex-wife.

Hoyt smiled and yawned through the brief hearing, and sported a self-satisfied look as he left the courthouse - but became camera-shy when he spotted photographers.

He faces up to three months in jail if convicted of public lewdness, a misdemeanor - which is more than the two days of community service he got when he was busted for unzipping underground in 1994.

Although only four women were called in for lineups this week, police say they have located at least two more alleged victims and are investigating calls from other straphangers who believe they were flashed by the same man.

What's unfortunate is he can afford to be smug. He's right, it is a misdemeaner. You'd think he might have the common sense to at least attempt to appear contrite so as to garner some sympathy towards his case, but apparantly he just really doesn't give a fuck.

sje wrote: I hope he gets his ass kicked in jail. :evil:

He's going to get worse than that. Especially if the corrections officers let the other inmates know what he's in there for.

EmilyM wrote: Does he understand that everyone in town knows about it? If I were him, I'd be afraid for my restaurant, or even for my ability to walk the streets unmocked.

He probably lives in his own little world and really does think he has a right to do what he does. Here's hoping he goes to prison, who knows. There's a good chance he can stay out if he's got a good lawyer.

rhodamine wrote: [quote=Carnivore][quote=sje]I hope he gets his ass kicked in jail. :evil:

He's going to get worse than that. Especially if the corrections officers let the other inmates know what he's in there for.

as a misdemeanor, the charges against him are more akin to parking violations and the like. i have a feeling he wont be doing hard time for this one, guys.

Well, I guess from what I've read, the max punishment for this is 3 months in jail. I think people hope the judge will throw the book at him and give him the max, but you're right, I'd be surprised if he saw even a day of jailtime.

Well, let's say he is freed and allowed to roam NYC again. Doesn't anyone think that at this point the chance of someone simply coming up to him on the street and slapping or punching him is quite good?

Candicissima wrote: Yeah, I'd say so. And it's fairly obvious that he'll probably do it again. Let's all just hope he runs into the wrong woman and gets his ass kicked a la the pervert and the Catholic school girls last year.

Oh, I don't even mean if he does it again. I mean if he's walking down to the local coffeeshop, someone see's him--and at this point most of New York has--and just cold cocks him for 'cold cocking' others in the past.

I'd find it hard to not say something if I saw him walk past me now.

I wonder if anyone would actually take a swing at him. Its not like the old days where flashers got the sh^t beat out of them right then and there. Have New Yorkers really become so law abiding? And what's up with a law that helps a guy continue to get away with whippin out the wang? If we can't get rid of the Rockefeller drug laws, can't they at least be amended to become the Rockefeller drug and naked penis laws?