EVERETT — A registered sex offender with a long history of exposing himself to women is in trouble with the law again.
Jeffrey Hudson, 54, has been charged with indecent exposure with sexual motivation stemming from a New Year’s Day incident at an Everett apartment building.
Prosecutors allege that Hudson exposed himself to two women and the apartment maintenance man who confronted a naked and aroused Hudson.
The incident began when a woman heard noises outside her door. She saw a man standing in the hallway outside. She asked him if everything was OK. He nodded his head. The woman could smell alcohol on the man and she went back inside.
A short time later she heard a knock on her window. She opened the door and saw the same man just outside. This time he was naked and had a crack pipe in his hand. He held his hand out toward her. She shut the door and looked through the peephole.
The man was pacing back and forth, court papers said.
She later saw the man enter his apartment.
A second woman later reported seeing a naked man leave his apartment. He asked the woman to touch him. The woman fled and called the maintenance man. He walked her back to her apartment.
The man then walked by Hudson’s apartment and saw him kneeling on the ground. Hudson was masturbating, court papers said.
“What the hell are you doing?” the man asked Hudson.
Hudson got up, went inside and shut his door.
Hudson was convicted in 1978 of burglary and indecent liberties. A sexual deviancy evaluation indicated the Hudson exposed himself to women. He received a 10-year deferred sentence and was sent to Western State Hospital for sexual deviancy treatment. He escaped from the program in 1983. Authorities caught up with him in Montana where he was charged with aggravated assault and burglary after breaking into a woman’s apartment. The charges were dropped when Montana officials arranged for Hudson to return to Washington to serve his sentence for the 1978 charges.
He was convicted in 2006 of indecent exposure after he stood naked in the doorway of an apartment laundry room where a woman was doing her laundry, court papers said.
He also has more than a dozen misdemeanor convictions the majority for drunken driving.
Hudson is being held on $100,000 bail.
Diana Hefley: 425-339-3463; hefley@heraldnet.com.
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