Some people will do anything to get on t he radio

“Fake DJ Gets Men to Disrobe
Tuesday, April 12, 2005

An Indiana man found that when it comes to getting people to take off their clothes, nothing beats money and fame as enticements.

Police and prosecutors say Richard C. Brown, 41, lured three men to his house last July by telling them he was a radio-station DJ and that they could win $50,000 in cash, or a new car, as part of a contest.

All they had to do, he explained, was take off their clothes and walk around naked, The Indianapolis Star reports.

"It's lucky no one was damaged any more than having to shed their clothes," said one prosecutor at Brown's trial.

Two men went through with the scheme, one of them walking back to his car wearing only a small T-shirt around his waist, passing a mother pushing a baby stroller and enduring wolf-whistles from construction workers.

"I'm surprised I didn't get arrested," the unnamed man, 31, testified at Brown's trial. "It was very embarrassing."

The third man noticed an electronic monitoring bracelet around Brown's ankle, left the house and called the radio station Brown said he was working for, only to find out Brown's story wasn't true.


Brown was on house arrest after being convicted of posing as a sheriff's deputy and humiliating yet another man in 2002.

In the latest cases, Brown called local restaurants and asked to speak to their youngest male employees, who would then get the radio-station pitch.

Brown's defense attorney said the incidents were weird but not worthy of prosecution.

"Creepy — absolutely, but not criminal," she said in closing arguments. "Are we going to start raiding the frat houses in America and charging those people with felonies?"

Nevertheless, the jury on March 30 convicted Brown of three counts each of criminal confinement and identity deception, which could add up to nine years in prison.

He faces another trial later this month in connection with similar incidents involving seven other young men.


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