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Cap Metro driver charged with indecent exposure
A Capital Metro driver has been charged with three misdemeanor counts of indecent exposure in connection with incidents in May, July and August when the driver was providing rides for people with disabilities.
Alonzo Livingston Hall, 45, exposed his genitals to a passenger on a special transit van that he drove, and requested sexual contact from her, according to arrest affidavits. He had also repeatedly touched her inappropriately while helping her move from her motorized scooter to a seat on the bus, the woman told police.
The woman, while she spurned the advances earlier, did not complain to Austin police and to Capital Metro until just after the Aug. 19 episode, according to the affidavit. Hall was suspended for a week beginning Aug. 20, Capital Metro said, then reinstated because Capital Metro at the time did not have sufficient information.
He was suspended without pay this week after police issued a warrant for his arrest, Capital Metro said. Hall was arrested at his home in Manor Tuesday evening, Austin police Det. Michael Crumrine said, and booked into Travis County jail. He posted bond and was released early today, Crumrine said.
Crumrine said Capital Metro had assured him after the August incident that while the investigation continued Hall would drive only vehicles that had video equipment that constantly recorded what was happening on the bus. When the earlier alleged incidents occurred, Crumrine said, the vans Hall was driving had equipment designed to record and retain images only after the vehicle comes to a sudden stop.
Hall could not be reached for comment.
Hall began working for Capital Metro affiliate StarTran in 1991 as a driver of regular buses, then in 1992 transferred to the agency’s special transit services. That section, now called MetroAccess, provides door-to-door rides for people whose disabilities make it difficult for them to use regular buses.
Crumrine said the door-to-door service Capital Metro was providing for the woman is one of a number of ways society seeks to help its most vulnerable citizens.
“That to me is the tragedy of this case, that this is someone she depended on to help her, and instead he took advantage of her,” Crumrine said.
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