April 20: There were many signs that the man in Florida who said he was a doctor conducting free door-to-door breast exams wasn't what he claimed. “Countdown’s” Keith Olbermann reports.
Beware the door-to-door free breast exam guy
76-year-old Florida man arrested after two women take him up on the offer
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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Updated: 9:33 p.m. ET April 20, 2006[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]MIAMI - A 76-year-old man claiming to be a doctor went door-to-door in a Florida neighborhood offering free breast exams and was charged with sexually assaulting two women who accepted the offer, police said Thursday.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]One woman became suspicious after the man asked her to remove all her clothes and began conducting a purported genital exam without donning rubber gloves, investigators said.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The woman then phoned the Broward County Sheriff's Office, and the suspect fled. He was arrested at another woman's apartment in the same Lauderdale Lakes neighborhood on Wednesday, a sheriff's spokesman said.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The white-haired suspect, Philip Winkoff, carried a black bag and claimed to be visiting on behalf of a local hospital.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"He told the woman that he was in the neighborhood offering free breast exams," sheriff's spokesman Hugh Graf said in a statement.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]At least two women, both in their 30s, let him into their homes, and he fondled and sexually assaulted them, the investigators said.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Winikoff was not a doctor, Graf said. He worked as a shuttle driver for an auto dealership.[/FONT]
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