Tuesday, September 1, 2020

This Week in Spycam News

Thailand - A school director has been moved to an inactive post pending an investigation into a video showing him placing a camera in the toilet of a pub in this northeastern province. more

 ID - A federal grand jury has indicted a Rigby man on 17 charges after he was arrested last year for video voyeurism...Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies learned that a woman had discovered videos of a 14-year-old girl in the shower on Boam’s phone. Additionally, the woman stumbled upon a video of herself showering on the phone, according to an affidavit of probable cause. more

Singapore - NTU student caught trying to film hall mate showering. When confronted, suspect allegedly claimed it was his first time and he was just being 'playful and curious'. more

MI - Police were called to the Aqua-Tots after a woman complained she saw a recording device capturing her in a changing stall and reported it to staff. Sakamoto was arrested for allegedly using a hidden camera. They found the memory card to his phone in the toilet in which they suspect he put there. more

TX - A Sevier County man faces a felony charge of video voyeurism for an alleged incident involving a female relative, according to records....a Sevier County woman reported to the Sheriff's Office that her 13-year-old female relative had found nude photos and videos of herself on the suspect's iPad...The girl told police she often got dressed in her closet. She reported that she was bending over to pick up some clothes when she noticed the iPad on a shelf and that it was recording. The girl reported that she stopped the recording and went to the recently deleted videos, where she found a video of herself changing clothes. more

UK - A woman was undressing after finishing her shift when she noticed an LED light shining from a shoe which had been placed in the next cubicle in the mixed gender locker room. She then discovered a small black camera attached to a long cable and yanked it towards her, before it snagged. The horrified supermarket worker found the peeping Tom cowering in a nearby locker and demanded his phone. more

LA - A onetime Assumption Parish political candidate and local business leader has been arrested for a second time in three months on video voyeurism counts. more

AR - Dillon Dooms, 35, is accused of hiding cameras inside his studio and videotaping unsuspected models changing their clothes... While changing clothes, the woman noticed a USB charging port with a small, pin-point-style lens on it. She inspected the device and found that it was a video camera with a micro SD card inside. According to the report, she found three other hidden cameras in the studio. She was only able to retrieve one of the SD cards from the cameras. The woman took the SD card to Fayetteville Police. Dooms was interviewed by investigators a few days later. more

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