An FBI agent faces sex-offense charges after a cleaning woman claimed she found him May 3 masturbating in a women’s lavatory on campus, a University of Arizona police spokesman said.
Ryan Seese, 33, was cited on suspicion of three misdemeanors, public sexual indecency, criminal trespassing and indecent exposure, Sgt. Eugene V. Mejia said, adding Seese was released to an FBI supervisor.
The woman opened a Student Union restroom stall to clean it and spotted a man playing with himself, Mejia said.
She ran out of the lavatory and reported the incident to her supervisor, who called police, Mejia said.
The woman pointed out Seese to an officer taking her report. When the officer tried to stop him, Seese ran into a parking garage just north of the Student Union, where he was caught, handcuffed and cited, Mejia said.
Though Seese told the officer he was with law enforcement and the officer verified him to be an FBI agent, it was unknown why Seese was at UA or where he was assigned in Arizona.
Seese’s attorney, Leo Plowman, could not be reached Friday.
FBI spokeswoman Deborah McCarley said Seese worked for the FBI but she would not confirm whether he was an agent, in accordance with FBI policy.

DAVID L. TEIBEL
Tucson Citizen