Police: Man strips naked, tries to get 'frightened' girls to swim with him at Key West beach

Local NewsSelf-proclaimed ‘attorney’ claims he was swimming nude for medical reasons, police sayClaude Bazo (MCSO)KEY WEST, Fla. – Police arrested a 45-year-old Key West man Wednesday evening after they said he stripped nude in the water at a beach and tried to get two young girls to swim with him — and later tried to use a medical condition as an excuse for bathing in the buff.According to an arrest report from the Key West Police Department, the girls told officers that they were playing in the water on a paddleboard attached to the pier at Higgs Beach when Claude Michael Bazo approached, took off his red shorts and began swimming naked.The girls told police that Bazo tried “multiple times” to get the girls, described as “obviously pre-pubescent (and) wearing two-piece bikinis,” to “come swim with him” while he was naked in the water.Officer Joshua Hesse wrote in the report that the girls were clearly traumatized as they recounted what happened, as they were “visibly shaking, speaking rapidly, taking short, rapid breaths (and) making rapid and nervous movements.” One of the girls appeared to have just been crying, he wrote.“Both girls indicated that they were immediately frightened by the suggestive
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