A Jackson, Wyoming, man who spent about four days in jail while being prosecuted on claims he flashed his private parts at teenage girls in a grocery store has been sentenced to probation and ordered to get mental health treatment.
Alvaro Santiago Par-Toc, who turns 24 this year, was charged Sept. 26 with one count of misdemeanor stalking, which is punishable by up to one year in jail.
At the time of his arrest, he reportedly told a Jackson Police Department investigator that he didn’t intend to flash anyone, and that his pants “fell down.”
He was released on a $5,000 cash bond Sept. 30. And late last month, he was sentenced to one year of unsupervised probation as part of a case deferral.
In Wyoming, a “301 deferral” means if the defendant completes a term of probation successfully, the judge won’t enter his conviction against him.
Santiago Par-Toc pleaded “no contest” to the stalking charge.
Jackson Circuit Court Judge Erin Weisman ordered his deferral Jan. 27 in response to a motion or a plea agreement, neither of which had surfaced in Santiago Par-Toc’s public file as of Thursday.
The judge is giving him until April 27 to pay $270 in court costs and fees.
She’s ordered him to perform 20 hours of community service by Jan. 27, 2026, and she’s given him until the last week of March to show the court he’s had a mental health evaluation.
Santiago Par-Toc must abide by the evaluation’s treatment recommendations, live a law-abiding life, avoid the teenage girls he reportedly stalked and check in with the court in July.
In The Candy Aisle
Santiago Par-Toc approached two 17-year-old girls in the candy aisle at a Jackson grocery store and smiled at them, says an evidentiary affidavit filed in his case Sept. 26.
Still smiling, he put his right hand down his pants, looked down, and looked back up at the girls, the document says.
One girl later told Jackson Hole Police Department Detective Heidi Schmidl that she found Santiago Par-Toc “creepy.”
The girls walked into a different aisle. As one of them walked past Santiago Par-Toc, she noticed he’d lowered his pants and exposed his genitalia, the affidavit says.
Santiago Par-Toc appeared in the next aisle the girls visited, and the next, and the next, they told police at the time.
They reported the incident to a grocery store employee and to one of their guardians, who related it to police.
Store, Bike Path
The document says Santiago Par-Toc was also suspected of stalking and indecent exposure incidents later in September at another store and on a bike path near the Garaman Park tunnel.
Victims from those places described him similarly: as wearing white shoes which looked like Adidas, and a New York Yankees ball cap, the affidavit says.
The suspect was also described as small of stature, according to a police statement from that time.
Santiago Par-Toc’s court file says he stands 4-foot-9 and weighs 80 pounds.
Home Call
Following up on a law-enforcement tip, JHPD Officer Alberto Rojas contacted Santiago Par-Toc at his home Sept. 24.
Santiago Par-Toc said he noticed one of the girls in the candy aisle, thought she was pretty, smiled and walked toward her.
He said he pulled up his shirt to wipe sweat off his face as he approached, and when he looked down, he realized his pants and underwear had fallen down and his upper pelvis was partially exposed, the document relates.
Rojas asked the man why he followed the girl after that.
Santiago Par-Toc said he wasn’t following her, he just happened to encounter her in another aisle, says the affidavit.
When she looked at him, he pulled his shirt up to wipe the sweat from his face a second time, Santiago Par-Toc recalled, according to the document.
Clair McFarland can be reached at clair@cowboystatedaily.com.
