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Man charged with performing sex act on MARTA train

Dontavia Tyrail Stewart (Credit: DeKalb jail)
Dontavia Tyrail Stewart (Credit: DeKalb jail)
By Joshua Sharpe
Nov 16, 2016

A DeKalb County man is accused of exposing himself and performing a sex act on a MARTA train.

According to a warrant released Wednesday, Dontavia Tyrail Stewart, 24, was looking at a fellow passenger, a woman, while performing the act on himself.

It allegedly happened as the train pulled into the Chamblee station at 11:30 p.m. on Sept. 13, but Stewart wasn't arrested until Sunday.

A security camera captured the crime, the warrant said.

Further information wasn't released.

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