JACKSONVILLE — A Marine Osprey pilot stationed aboard New River air station was charged with indecent exposure after allegedly performing a lewd act in front of a woman at a Jacksonville gas station.
Maj. Danny Cohlmeyer, 37, of Edgecombe Court, was arrested Sunday evening by the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office after a woman reported she had been pumping gas at Friendly Mart on U.S. 17 when a man, naked from the waist down, stepped out of his maroon pickup while performing a lewd act, the Sheriff’s Office reported.
According to reports, the man made a point of making eye contact with the woman as he performed the act. When she told him she was calling law enforcement, he allegedly pulled up his clothing and drove off. The women had taken down his license plate number, and sheriff’s deputies later arrested Cohlmeyer without incident at his Jacksonville home and charged him with misdemeanor indecent exposure.
According to Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown, the woman’s 14-year-old daughter was with her at the time of the incident, but the girl was reclined in her seat and did not see Cohlmeyer.
Cohlmeyer, an MV-22 Osprey pilot and assistant operations officer for squadron VMM-263 aboard New River, was promoted to major in July.
Cohlmeyer is the latest in a series of high-ranking local Marine officers to be charged with a civilian crime. Last year, Cherry Point air station commander Col. Douglas Denn was convicted of DWI and 24th Marine Expeditionary Unite commander Col. Robert Petit was convicted of misdemeanor larceny.
Capt. Daniel Nilsson, a former aide to a Camp Lejeune three-star general, awaits a November court date for six counts of second-degree exploitation of a minor alleging that he possessed child pornography.
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