UPDATED: Fire Capt. Walks Into a RI Convenience Store Naked, Says Report

UPDATED: Fire Capt. Walks Into a RI Convenience Store Naked, Says Report

A Lynnfield, Massachusetts fire captain walked into a Middletown, Rhode Island convenience store naked, according to report from Boston.com. Now, he’s facing a criminal charge.

John H. Walsh -- who was appointed to the Lynnfield fire department forty years ago in 1979 -- is now facing charges.

Boston.com is reporting, "John H. Walsh, 60, was arrested after a clerk at the 7-Eleven in Middletown called police around 3 p.m. last Wednesday and told the 911 dispatcher that a man came into the store without clothes on and then drove away in a black Mercedes-Benz, according to the police report obtained by Boston.com."

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"Police caught up with the vehicle “moments later,” the report said. They found Walsh driving with a female front-seat passenger; both had clothes on. Police asked what happened, and the female passenger said that Walsh is her boyfriend and “that she ‘dared’ him to walk into the store naked because Walsh told her it was ‘legal’ in Rhode Island,” according to the report.

Lynnfield Fire Chief Glenn Davis told the Firehouse that Walsh has been placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation.

"I hold my staff to a very high standard," he said. "Beyond that, I can't comment on personnel matters."