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Belleville man with chronic sock fetish charged with burglary News
"BELLEVILLE • This city’s socks offender has struck again, authorities say.
James W. Dowdy, 43, whose fetish for women’s socks has gotten him arrested more than a dozen times, was charged Tuesday in St. Clair County Circuit Court with burglary.
He was arrested on Monday after allegedly taking socks from a police “bait car.”
The vehicle had been set up with a basket full of laundry to snag Dowdy after a resident reported finding socks in her yard in the 7600 block of West Main Street in Belleville. Police recognized the discarded socks as Dowdy’s method of operation.
“Belleville Police Department has had numerous incidents with James Dowdy of taking socks from residences and other types of sock-related incidents, with his using socks in an inappropriate and obscene manner,” according to a search warrant.
Dowdy, of the 7700 block of West Main Street, has been in almost-constant trouble since boyhood related to his obsession with women’s socks."
"BELLEVILLE • This city’s socks offender has struck again, authorities say.
James W. Dowdy, 43, whose fetish for women’s socks has gotten him arrested more than a dozen times, was charged Tuesday in St. Clair County Circuit Court with burglary.
He was arrested on Monday after allegedly taking socks from a police “bait car.”
The vehicle had been set up with a basket full of laundry to snag Dowdy after a resident reported finding socks in her yard in the 7600 block of West Main Street in Belleville. Police recognized the discarded socks as Dowdy’s method of operation.
“Belleville Police Department has had numerous incidents with James Dowdy of taking socks from residences and other types of sock-related incidents, with his using socks in an inappropriate and obscene manner,” according to a search warrant.
Dowdy, of the 7700 block of West Main Street, has been in almost-constant trouble since boyhood related to his obsession with women’s socks."
