Washington man sentenced for indecent assault

A Washington man who was hauled off an Amtrak train and locked up in the Lincoln County Detention Center after allegedly exposing himself to two teen-age girls during an incident earlier this year has pleaded guilty.

Mallory Nehemiah Brown, of Auburn, Washington was initially held on $150,000 bail following the alleged Jan. 9 incident. He was released from custody Sept. 3 following his Aug. 27 plea.

Brown was charged with felony indecent exposure to a minor and misdemeanor indecent exposure to a minor. The felony charge was dropped in the plea deal.

A felony assault charge relating to an incident in the county jail after Brown was locked was reduced to a misdemeanor. He pleaded guilty to that count, too.

Because Brown was incarcerated since January, he had enough time to be released following the plea deal. He had to pay $235 in surcharges.

In the probable cause statement, Libby Chief of Police Cody Ercanbrack was dispatched to the train station in Libby after Amtrak police called reporting a man was exposing himself on the train. When the train pulled in, Ercanbrack and county Sheriff’s Office Captain John Davis met with the train conductor and staff who told the officers that a man was masturbating in front of some juvenile girls.

Ercanbrack spoke with the man, identified as Brown, and asked him if he had been masturbating on the train. He allegedly said he had his hand down his pants while he slept.

Ercanbrack then spoke to the sisters, one 14 years old and the other, 16 years old. The alleged 14-year-old victim said Brown sat down in front of them and said he kept looking back at them while he allegedly masturbated. They told the officer they could see Brown’s penis as he touched himself while he looked back at them.

One of the girls got her grandma, who then sat in her seat and she also witnessed Brown masturbating, according to the court document. The grandmother found the conductor and told him what was happening. The conductor called Lincoln County Dispatch to request Brown be removed from the train and charged.

According to the probable cause statement by Ercanbrack, Brown had a conviction for indecent exposure on March 8, 2017, in Miles City, Montana.

A conviction on the misdemeanor charge may result in a maximum six-month term in the county jail.