Wednesday, January 15, 2020

The Case of “Eddie Spaghetti” and the First Spycam News of 2020

We are only halfway through, the first month, of the first year, in a new decade... and the spycam pandemic is off to a roaring start. 

Like corporate espionage and other forms of illegal electronic surveillance, only the failures make the news. The vast majority of illegal covert electronic surveillance goes undetected.

Learn how to spot spycams and keep scheduling your corporate TSCM inspections.

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Canada - Edward Casavant, 55, (who gave himself the nickname, “Eddie Spaghetti”) pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, making child pornography, voyeurism and sexual exploitation of a person with a disability, and was sentenced to six years in prison. more

OH - A former Hillsdale Middle School and High School art teacher convicted of voyeurism was sentenced Tuesday to 180 days in jail. more

CA - Peterborough man charged with voyeurism after allegedly using electronics to peer through windows. more

Singapore - The alleged victims of a Singaporean undergraduate accused of illicitly filming 12 women want a gag order on his identity to be lifted, despite being fully aware of the risk of being identified. more

ID - Kory Ray West, the 34-year-old man accused of concealing a video camera in the bathroom of a Blackfoot home where he had been staying, and of stealing items of underclothing from bedrooms, could serve up to seven years in prison for his crimes. more

NY - The husband of a New York prosecutor who filmed his child's nanny on bathroom spycam, could have charges against him dropped, after he claimed he only used it to watch himself undress. more

HI - An $8,000 project to install covert security cameras in the Council Chambers of the county building in order to monitor an active shooter or hostage situation was kept secret from most council members and the public, county officials said. more

CA - Ring of fired: Amazon axes multiple workers who secretly snooped on netizens' surveillance camera footage. more

KY - A former teacher at a Kentucky high school admitted to filming students in a bathroom...
Police...reported finding a recording device set up in the bathroom of the nurse's station. Police said the video recorder captured the person putting the device in place. more

MI - A Canton man pleaded guilty last month to three felony charges associated with illegal voyeurism at an Aqua-Tots swim school in his hometown... Police said they were dispatched to the Canton Aqua-Tots swim school for young children...because a woman saw a recording device targeting her changing stall. She reported her suspicions to staff. more

UK - staff and parents with children at Denmead Junior School were in shock at the grim discovery of an iPhone in a vent. Action was taken by the school. A 23-year-old man from Waterlooville (was arrested) on suspicion of voyeurism. He has been released under investigation. more

CT - An investigation that began in South Windsor in August that led to a Manchester man being charged with voyeurism after filming people in a locker room at L.A. Fitness resulted in more charges being filed against him Friday stemming from similar incidents in Farmington, police said. South Windsor police said that Selby had placed his cellphone in one of the lockers and left the door open. more

CA - A Desert Hot Springs man who was previously required to register as a sex offender pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of filming people inside a grocery store bathroom in Cathedral City...10 misdemeanor counts of unlawful use of a concealed camera to secretly videotape.... 2013 - Prosecutors alleged he concealed a video camera in a paper bag and entered a woman's restroom in a Los Angeles Macy's department store dressed as a woman and secretly videotaped women using the restroom. more

Wales - A sportsman who once represented Anglesey in the Island Games has admitted installing a camera in toilets where people, including youngsters, got changed. more