Police arrest man in banana suit

PORT ANGELES, Wash., Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Police in Washington state said they arrested a banana-suited man who allegedly exposed himself in a Wendy's before brandishing a shotgun near a golf course.

Clallam County Sheriff's deputies said Carlton Jeffery Kohnert, 21, was dressed in a child's banana costume when he allegedly exposed himself to a woman at a Wendy's in Port Angeles shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday, the Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, reported Thursday.

The same Dodge Stratus witnesses reported seeing the costumed man leaving in was reported to police a short time later by witnesses who spotted the vehicle doing 360s in a store parking lot.

Kohnert and the people in the vehicle with him then allegedly drove to the Four Seasons Ranch, where the man in the banana suit allegedly pulled out a shotgun and began yelling.

"We believe he was yelling something or other about white supremacy," Pieper said.

Deputies caught up to the vehicle and Kohnert was arrested on suspicion of reckless endangerment, aiming or discharging a weapon and indecent exposure.

Anthony Maybury, 21, who was in the car with Kohnert, was arrested for investigation of reckless endangerment.

An 18-year-old female passenger, who was not named, was not arrested, authorities said.