An assistant dean at the University of Kentucky has been charged with criminal trespassing and giving an officer a false name and address after a woman told police that he was walking in and around buildings at her apartment complex Saturday.
The woman told police he had exposed himself to her there on an earlier occasion.
The woman gave police a detailed description of the suspicious man. When they arrived, they found Ray R. Dowd, 49. He did not have identification on him, and when an officer asked for his name, address and birthday, Dowd gave fake information. According to a police citation filed in Fayette District Court, he told the officer he was Branden Collins of Brandon Way in Nicholasville. The birthday he gave was also wrong.
The document says an investigation showed Dowd was "on the premises unlawfully for illicit conduct and not to see a fictitious friend 'Amy.'"
Dowd was arrested and later released from the Fayette County Detention Center on $50 cash bond. He is scheduled to be arraigned at 1 p.m. Thursday.
Dowd is an assistant dean in the UK College of Social Work. A university spokesman said he could not comment on whether Dowd has been disciplined as a result of the incident, because it is a personnel matter.
