A Starkville man is facing a voyeurism charge after police arrested him on a felony warrant Monday.
Starkville police arrested Eddie Parks Jr., 59, on suspicion of voyeurism: trespassing as a “peeping tom.” The warrant for Parks’ arrest stems from an April 24 incident at 101 Highway 12 E., which is where Domino’s Pizza is located.
Starkville Police Department Public Information Officer Brandon Lovelady said Parks reportedly exposed himself during the incident.
According to an affidavit the Dispatch obtained from Starkville municipal court, Parks entered an enclosed brick area on Domino’s property to look through a window in the adjacent Sprint Mart for the “lewd, licentious and indecent purpose of spying upon the occupants thereof.”
Parks, who also goes by the nickname “Soon,” has been arrested multiple times for voyeurism in the past.
Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Office arrested him in July 2014 at a roadblock on a warrant for non-compliance as a sex offender and voyeurism from a June 2014 incident. Details of that incident were not released at the time of Parks’ arrest.
He was arrested again in November 2016 for a voyeurism incident two months earlier at the Courtyard Marriott hotel at 100 Mercantile Street, and an October 2016 residential burglary in Longview.
Parks was booked into the Oktibbeha County Jail. He’s out on $10,000 bond, according to jail personnel.
Alex Holloway was formerly a reporter with The Dispatch.
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