BMV Commissioner Held on Public Indecency Charge After Arrest at Downtown Restroom

  

      Bureau of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Andrew J. Miller was arrested Wednesday after police say he exposed and touched himself in front of an undercover officer in a Downtown public restroom.
     Miller, 40, Carmel, was held in the Marion County Jail on an initial charge of public indecency, records show. Bail had not yet been set.
      Police arrested Miller after they say he masturbated and asked an undercover officer to touch his genitals in the men's bathroom at Claypool Court, 110 W. Washington St., at about 1:30 p.m., according to police records.
      Jane Jankowski, spokeswoman for Gov. Mitch Daniels, declined comment on Miller's arrest.
      Miller was appointed to the $115,000-a-year post of BMV commissioner in December 2008. He previously was director of the state's Office of Disaster Recovery.
      Miller had had served as director of the state Department of Agriculture from 2005 to July 2008. Before joining state government he was vice president of research, development and marketing for Weaver Popcorn and held posts at Proctor & Gamble, Nabisco and ConAgra.
      The Claypool Court men's room, located across the street from Circle Centre Mall, is known to police as a "cruising" spot where men meet for sex. In 2001, police arrested Indiana Board of Education member Denver McFadden after he exposed himself to an undercover officer.
      After his arrest, McFadden lost his seat on the Board of Education and resigned from his $75,000-a-year job as the New Albany-Floyd County school district's director of elementary education. A jury later found him guilty of misdemeanor public indecency and he was sentenced to a year's probation.

(INDYSTAR)