that he had rolled down his window, and he goes, "Excuse me, miss. Can I interest you in this?" I don't know why I looked, but he it was he had it out and it was in like >> A routine stop at a car wash and gas station leaves a woman shaken after a stranger's question leads to an unsettling encounter. >> It wasn't just that he like flashed me his It was in like a clear plastic tube. >> Recently, it has been happening more. There has been something coming up in me. >> That's the pump. Yeah. >> That's the pump. Okay. >> Don't reach in there with your bare hands. >> The following is based on official police records released to date, and some of the footage has never been seen before until now. In August 2025, a woman calls 911 to report an incident that occurred just minutes prior at the Cobblestone Auto Spa in Tempe. Officers soon head over to her apartment to take her statement. >> All right, so can you tell me what happened? >> Um so, I had just went through the car wash, and I was at like the vacuum stall. >> Mhm. >> Um I was just wiping my car down with a towel, and he had already been parked for just a second. He was wiping his car down, I think, a minute ago. But then, he had got back in his car, and I remember thinking for a second like that that was really fast cuz he had just barely parked, and I wasn't finished. And so, he was sitting in his car. As I was on my passenger side, he had rolled down his window, and he goes, "Excuse me, miss. Can I interest you in this?" And I don't know why I looked, but he then he it was he had it out, and it was in like like a tube. It can't like a pump or something. >> Okay. >> And I just like I just gasped, and then I like got back in my car. And I don't know why I didn't like yell for somebody else around us or like say something, but I just I was just in shock, and I left, and then I called 911. >> Okay. I'm sorry to have you like or have you think about it, but can you describe what it looked like? >> I don't know how long I guess he had had it in there, but it was like definitely >> In an interview with a detective a few weeks later, the victim would share a more detailed account of what she claims to have witnessed on the day of her report. >> It wasn't just that he like flashed me his It was also like it was in like a clear plastic tube, which I'm assuming is like was it pump cuz it had then a tube coming from the end of it, and then like a pump ball thing that he had in his hand like when they do your blood pressure. >> Okay. >> So, it was in that. It wasn't just that, but he had that I guess like in his car ready to go. >> Okay. And was he doing anything else with his or manipulating them or anything like that? >> No, I think he might have like like shaking it a little bit like from the base like when I looked in like he moved it a little, but it didn't seem like he was like I don't know like off or anything. >> Okay. Um and you said that the the ball that led to the pump was in uh his >> In his right hand. >> right hand. Uh do you know do you know what his left hand was doing? >> His left hand was at the base of his >> Okay. >> So, he's like holding it. >> Okay, that makes sense. Police soon obtained security footage from the Cobblestone Car Wash. In it, the suspect is seen pulling into the empty vacuum bay to the victim's right while she's wiping her car down. He exits and reenters his vehicle multiple times before finally sitting in the driver's seat. The victim appears to move toward the suspect's window before backing away abruptly. She then seemingly leaves in a hurry, stopping for a few seconds to take a picture of the suspect's license plate. The suspect then exits his vehicle and appears to readjust his shorts before driving away. The victim describes the suspect as a white male of medium build, approximately 35 years old with shoulder-length ginger hair. While she isn't sure about other details regarding his appearance, she is able to recall some key details about his car. >> And what specifically do you remember about the vehicle? >> It was a silver Honda Civic and I remember seeing the stickers on it. He had a sticker on the back that says Chief Stalker and then he had one on the driver's side and two on the back that say Fight Ready, which is a gym. >> The detective is soon able to locate the car's registered owner and works on putting together a clearer picture of the suspect through a photo lineup. According to police reports, the victim didn't appear to recognize any of the men in the photos. The detective soon learns why after the vehicle's owner returns his call. I understand that this might be a bit of a a weird phone call, but I have a report that came across my desk that involves your Honda Civic. >> Oh, okay. That actually belonged to my older brother. What's going on though? I can probably relay a message. >> I don't want to give too much information about it over the phone, but basically there were there was an incident in involving the vehicle. We're just trying to find out who was driving it at the time. Uh just so we can contact them and ask them some questions. Nobody's in any trouble or anything like that. Uh what's your brother's name? >> It would be Joshua Curtis. >> And do you have a good phone number for Joshua? >> Um see, this is where it gets kind of weird too. Um I actually don't. We've actually been trying to locate him for years now as well. He's one of my half-brothers. Uh had an abusive other side of the family, so he's kind of been struggling with trauma from that for years and years, but yeah, before COVID he was living with us in Illinois and then he just kind of up and left one day and went to Arizona, didn't even tell us. He just sent me a picture of Welcome to Arizona on the road and he's been there ever since. So my I'm trying to transfer the title to him. So I figured, you know, >> Yeah. >> something might happen eventually. I don't want to be responsible. So I could probably give him uh Uh, number if it works and just let him know that you guys need a statement or something. >> Yeah, you can if you want. That shouldn't be a problem. >> Following his conversation with the original owner of the car, the detective has the victim come back in for a second photo lineup. This time including a photo of 34-year-old Joshua Curtis. >> Take as much time as you need, okay? And that's the one at the one in number three? >> No, not number three. It's six. They're kind of similar. I think it's six. Not I think. His face wasn't that slim. >> Okay. >> According to police reports, the victim identifies Joshua as the man from the car wash in the second photo lineup. In the meantime, Joshua contacts the detective after his brother informed him they were looking for him. >> I'm not allowed to give a lot of information about over a phone cuz of the nature of the investigation, but there was something happened here in Tempe and based off of some video canvassing we did, we believe that you may have witnessed what happened. Would you be willing to let us know if you saw her or anything, anything like that? >> Um, I mean yeah, I'm totally willing. I mean, ideally I wouldn't like to disrupt my schedule. I I don't remember witnessing anything. What was the time? What were the circumstances? I mean, you guys can offer anything useful. >> It would have been a few weeks ago. Um, like I said, I I I'm not because of the nature of the investigation, I'm not allowed to give a lot over the phone, but once we talk in person, I can do that. >> Is it like is it illegal to like decline? >> I mean, no, yeah. I mean, you're not being official to me in some sort of way, you know what I mean? Yeah, um, I mean, you're you're just considered a witness. I mean, it's not like you you can't like force you say anything or anything like that. >> While initially reluctant, Joshua eventually agrees to meet with detectives. They make their way over to Joshua's apartment to finally chat with him. >> Hello. >> Hi. >> So. >> How you doing? >> Um, good. >> Sit down, make yourself comfortable, or or whatever. >> What do you guys want to talk to you guys? >> Yeah. >> So are you guys going to stand or >> Um we can we probably sit. Um cool. So You can hang out right there. >> Yeah, I'm probably >> I work so late, so so basically the thing that happened I I want to try to keep it a little bit vague just to get like the most like neutral recollection of of your of your memory and everything uh before you went to bed things. So this would have been on August 2nd around like 8:00 in the morning um over by the area of >> Was that a Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday? >> Um I believe that was a Saturday, actually. Do you remember where you were at that time in the morning? >> reason that I travel through Tempe is to get to Chandler to clean fridges at a public storage facility right now. >> [clears throat] >> And any place I'm liable to stop in Okay. in Tempe or but I don't have any business in Tempe. I don't know anyone in Tempe. I don't go to Tempe for any social reasons. And I don't involve myself in any nefarious activities. >> Okay. >> Joshua tells detectives that he only drives through the area to reach clients. While he has denied any knowledge of an incident in Tempe thus far, the detective's description of that morning is about to jog Joshua's memory. >> And we saw your car over at the Cobblestone. >> Cobblestone car wash? >> Do you remember going to the Cobblestone car wash? >> Yeah, so sometimes I'll stop in there for gas or whatever. >> Okay. Do you remember talking to anybody at that gas station or anything like that? Okay. We saw somebody else that was involved with um what happened come to your car and talk to you, looks like, while you were at the car [clears throat] wash. >> Pulling to a stall? >> Uh you guys were next to like the vacuum areas. So then it looks like you probably got a couple of car washes. The one involved people talked to you over your car for a little bit. >> Doesn't ring a bell? >> Doesn't ring a bell? >> Okay. >> Um so and we were able to identify a person, talked to them, and what they told us was that uh they had seen you in the car uh with a pump on. Oh, and you're working the pump. >> Got you. I got you. Now it's more clear. >> Looking at you. >> That would be the reason that sometimes I would pull in and just uh sit there and look at people and >> Okay. >> Joshua, now far more forthcoming with information regarding his proclivities, recounts the incident and shares what he believes triggered this behavior. >> Tell me about everything that happened from start to finish. >> I pulled in to the parking spot and there was cars on both sides of me and I rolled down the window and I said, "Hey, would you have any interest in this?" And she leaned in and then left. >> And what did that person see when they when she leaned in? >> The >> Okay. Um and then after they left, what happened? >> I left. I left. >> Okay. You said that that's kind of a common thing for you to do, like especially with the pump or just just looking at people or >> Recently it has been happening more. There has been something coming up in me, but in no way, shape or form has anything else other than that happened. >> Okay. Um how long have these feelings been going on? >> Couple months. >> Couple months. Is there anything that has triggered it or something like that? Like anything in your past or >> been gas station pills that I had found and I started trying them and it'll drive you to certain behaviors and certain tendencies. >> it's something that I'm analyzing and going over in myself, trust me. I knew that this was in some way, shape or form connected to that. >> Yeah. I figured you knew, that's why I kind of got things. So, I apologize for a little bit of misdirection, but >> You don't have to apologize. >> I appreciate you being honest with us now. >> So, what what do we do? >> Uh >> Well, so so so a few questions to talk to you about if you don't mind. >> So, your your girlfriend So, she I I'm still a little confused. Does she live here or not live here? She does live here. >> work here. >> Okay. And you said that there was a significant age gap. >> Yeah. >> How old is she? >> she's 34. >> Okay. >> We wouldn't even be in a relationship if she >> You need help. >> Okay. But she's not like 15 or anything like that. >> She's 20. >> She's 20. Okay. That's the reason I asked because, you know >> The apartment's in her name. >> Yeah, I'm just, you know, as a SVU and crimes detective, those are things that I have to ask about just to make sure, okay. >> I'm trapped in a situation that I don't want to be in, and I'm ready to go back out into the world, and [clears throat] I'm kind of undeveloped in that area, and maybe the ways that I try to go about it I'm in a beginning of a learning process, I think is the most accurate way that I can describe it. >> What exactly were you doing that morning? >> Well, this one works by pumping you. You let the air out of it, and then it creates blood flow to it, creating a hardness. >> Okay. >> A bigness. >> Okay. >> Was it was it on your >> Yeah, it was. >> Where is the pump now? >> In my backpack. >> In that black [clears throat] backpack right there? Okay. Um we'll be right back here in a little bit. Are there Do you have any other pumps anywhere? >> No, sir. >> Okay. >> Is it okay if Detective Contos goes in and grabs it, or do you have Do you have gloves with you now? >> I do not. >> I can grab it for you, and so even you need this one now, okay? So You are being placed under arrest, okay? >> Yeah. >> For indecent exposure. >> Do you have gloves, Don? >> Yep. >> Okay. It's in the backpack over here. >> Right. >> Oh, that one? So, not that back >> Right. >> Okay, it's in that one. Okay. Do you have any of those pills still? >> Not so much. I just buy one a day pretty much and then >> Okay. All right. Do you know like what brand they are or anything like that? >> What's that? >> Rhino. >> Rhino is what they're called? Okay. And how many how many do you normally take? >> One. >> One? That's it? Okay. >> One. >> The detectives drive Joshua and his pump to the Tempe City Jail. >> That's the pump. Yeah. Don't reach in there with your bare hands. >> Before taking him in, they ask him one last thing. >> All right, Josh. So, before I go in there real quick, again, I just want to really thank you for being cooperative, open and honest with everything. It That says a lot about you that you're actually able to own up to those things, okay? I know it's going to be pretty tough. Um >> I don't know anything about that other >> With that in mind, um you know, the the girl was pretty shaken up about all of this. It sounds like you're you know, taking responsibility, pretty apologetic guy. Is there anything that you would want to say to her or anything like that? >> It won't happen to another. >> Okay. Anything else you'd want to say to her? >> It wasn't right to invade her experience that way or anyone else's experience that way and that's what I'm in the process of learning and it won't happen again. >> Would you be able willing to to write that down so we can give that to her? Okay. >> Joshua takes the detective up on his suggestion and pens a letter to the victim opening with the statement, "I write this message to you from the shame of a jail cell." He tells her, "There have been others before you." expressing remorse and even gratitude for the victim's choice to take action. According to court documents, Joshua Curtis was charged with indecent exposure and public and He played guilty to both counts. Joshua was given a 30-day suspended jail sentence and placed on probation until February 2027. 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