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(INDYSTAR.COM) Bureau of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Andrew J. Miller was arrested Wednesday after police say he exposed and touched himself in front of an undercover officer in a Downtown public restroom.

Miller, 40, Carmel, was booked into the Marion County Jail on an initial charge of public indecency, records show. He was released about 9 p.m. on $150 bail.

According to an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department report, Miller masturbated and asked an undercover officer to touch his genitals in the men’s bathroom at Claypool Court, 110 W. Washington St., about 1:30 p.m.

Efforts to reach Miller were unsuccessful. Jane Jankowski, spokeswoman for Gov. Mitch Daniels, declined comment on Miller’s arrest.

Daniels appointed Miller to the $115,000-a-year post of BMV commissioner in January 2009 to replace Ron Stiver. Miller previously was director of the state’s Office of Disaster Recovery.

With 140 branches statewide, the BMV oversees driver’s licenses and credentials for about 5.6 million Hoosiers and registrations for more than 6.6 million vehicles and watercraft.

Miller has been instrumental in promoting the state’s new SecureID driver’s licenses, which will give clearance to board airplanes or enter federal buildings. The BMV began issuing the licenses earlier this year, and they will be required for everyone by 2016.

A native of DeKalb County and a Purdue University graduate, Miller had served as director of the state Department of Agriculture from 2005 to July 2008.

Before joining state government, he was vice president of research, development and marketing for Weaver Popcorn and held posts at Procter & Gamble, Nabisco and ConAgra.

According to the BMV website, Miller is married and has three children.

The Claypool Court men’s room, located across the street from the Circle Centre mall, is known to police as a “cruising” spot where men meet for sex.

Miller was the eighth person arrested this year at the Claypool Court’s men’s room. All of this year’s arrests have been made by the same two IMPD vice officers, Eric Simmons and Todd Scroggins.

Police reports said the arrests were all of men age 26 through 42. Seven of the men were from the Indianapolis area, and the other was from Denver.

In 2001, police arrested Indiana Board of Education member Denver McFadden after he exposed himself to an undercover officer in the Claypool Court men’s room.

After his arrest, McFadden lost his seat on the Board of Education and resigned from his $75,000-a-year job as the New Albany-Floyd County school district’s director of elementary education.

A jury later found him guilty of misdemeanor public indecency, and he was sentenced to a year’s probation