Man acquitted of indecent exposure in Cushing McDonald’s parking lot

STILLWATER — A Payne County jury deliberated for only 30 minutes Tuesday before acquitting a 28-year-old man of indecent exposure in the Cushing McDonalds’ parking lot in 2024, according to a court official.

   If convicted of his Payne County charge, former rural Chandler resident Andrew Bradley Waits, now of Union City, could have been given as much as a life prison term, since he had been previously convicted of two counts of indecent exposure in 2018 in Cleveland County, for which he was placed on probation for five years.

   Waits was arrested by Cushing Police Sgt. Jack Ford at 8:26 am on March 28, 2024, and released from the Payne County Jail on $5,000 bond three days later, court records show.

   When Ford was sent to the Cushing McDonalds, a witness “waved me over and was pointing to a small silver car parked in a parking spot on the east side of the building,” according to Ford’s affidavit.

   The witness said that he and another man were on the McDonalds’ roof changing filters when the other man saw Waits “sitting in the driver seat with no clothes on,” while fondling himself, the affidavit alleged. The witness said that he walked to the edge of the roof and saw the same thing, the affidavit alleged.

   “Waits denied that he was doing this and told me that he is a rapper, and he was listening to music and pounding his chest to the beat of the music,” the police sergeant wrote in his affidavit.

   “I then made contact with the manager inside of McDonalds to see if I could review the video,” and was told “you can see the car but could not see inside the car,” the police sergeant wrote in his affidavit.

   After taking statements from two witnesses, the police sergeant arrested Waits, his affidavit said.