SpyCam Story #662 - This Week In SpyCam News

SpyCam stories have become commonplace and the techniques used, repetitive. We continue to keep lose track of the subject for statistical purposes, but won't bore you with too many details. Links supplied.

General

OH - Cop without pants arrested for unspecified voyeurism. Cover up.

NY - Apple store spycam'er gets exposure. Life 'intimates' art. 

OH - Mr. Nicely indited on video voyeurism charges. No relation to Mr. Rogers.

OH - Couple visits for weekend. Man spycam's host. Wife and host snatch cell.

Canada - Landlord spycam'ing renters.

UK - "recording another person doing a private act for the purpose of sexual gratification"

Hotels

FL - Man cams Hooters International Swimsuit contestants changing in hotel. Busted.

CA - Hotel worker resigns after admitting hiding a spycam in a public bathroom. Walks.

Showers & Changing Rooms

AR - Old Navy changing room spycam'er nailed at Starbucks. Police checking phone.

SC - KOA campground showers target of man with cell phone cam.

IN - Another guy with a cell phone in a dressing room.

LA - Pencam in women's showers at gym. Judge approves class action suit.

UK - Man found guilty of voyeurism in a swimming pool changing room.

Bathrooms

WA - Fish hatchery manager/bathroom spycam'er sentenced. Employees smelled something...

ID - Teen caught spycaming restroom uses skateboard as weapon when confronted. Dude? 

FL - Another guy hiding a cell phone in the bathroom.

UK - Man admits to putting cell phone in cafe's women's bathroom air freshener.

The Tanning Guys...

AR - New charges in the tanning man bedroom spycam case.

FL - Sets up tanning booth in his barn. Charges $2. Now headed to prison.

Off their meds...

RI - X-Ray tech sees license lifted for taking exam room video of 16-year old girl.

OH - Ultrasound tech convicted of spycam'ing females at workplace. Three charges dismissed.

Canada - Female nursing home employee skates on phone voyeurism. Not covert enough.

AR - Medical center cell phone spycam'er pleads guilty.
NV - Hospital worker get 1-year for filming co-workers in bathroom.

"Trusted Agents"

MS - Traveling preacher accused of videotaping women without them knowing visits court.

LA - Youth group sleepover spycam'er with 40 counts sought reduced bail. Denied.

Wales - Former scoutmaster, school custodian convicted for locker room spying.

ID - Ex-teacher jailed - Spycam'ed high school girls showering during FFA convention.

OH - Attorney school theater accused of voyeurism challenges search warrant.

Upskirters

WA - 14-year old girl stings bathroom phone spycam'er with her phone. He's washed up.

ID - Bottom-shelf shopper arrested for "upskirt" shooting in multiple stores. Think neckbolts.

WA - Two guys upskirting in stores nabbed.

SC - Police seek drug store upskirter suspect. See him on the store's surveillance video.

OH - Man wanted for upskirtering ten in Ohio found in Puerto Rico.

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SpyCam Story #664 - This Month In SpyCam News

SpyCam stories have become commonplace and the techniques used, repetitive. We continue to keep lose track of the subject for statistical purposes, but won't bore you with too many details. Links supplied. 

"What's up Doc?"

VA - Foot doctor hides restroom spycam in box of latex gloves. Employee fingers it.
LA - Gynecologist documents work too well. 186 counts of video voyeurism.
NY - Urologist arrested for upskirting. 
CA - Plastic surgeon for celebrities with spycam in dressing room.

The Usual Suspects...
ID - Nature lover films women using campground shower. Admits to dozens of films.
ID - Cell phone + tissue box + employee restroom...
ID - Man has pleads guilty to video voyeurism.
CT - Cell phone + tissue box + bathroom... 
CT - Subway sandwich employee stuffs spycam into insulation under the bathroom sink.

KY - Man charged with placing spy cam in Wal-Mart men's room. Hold the KY jokes. 

CO - Man hiding in Yoga festival porta-potty tank pleads not guilty. Try insanity next time.

AR - Hidden camera in girl's bedroom. A dolt claims, "to see if she was having sex."
AR - Tanning bed spycam'er pleads guilty. 
FL - Man gets 10 years for spycam in bedrooms and evidence tampering.
LA - Ex-security guard - 42 counts of voyeurism. Hid spycams in restrooms at his building.
MI - Man jailed for taping sexual encounter between himself and three women.

UK - Landlord with clothes hook spycam hung by his own petard.
UK - Married vicar suspended after arrest on suspicion of voyeurism.

Canada - Swimming instructor puts spycam in staff-only locker room. 
Canada - Clothing store dressing room cam-man turns himself in. 
Canada - Another clothing store cam-man.
Austria - Artist installs one-way mirror in cafe. Peeks from mens restroom into ladies room. 

School Daze...
KY - A real McCoy caught upskirting at college.
NJ - Chief custodian at Catholic high school + 8 cameras - Arrested.
CT - Cell phone + college co-ed showers... What could possibly go wrong? 
IN - Janitor + spycam + locker room.
IN - Middle School science teacher + spycam + women's faculty restroom at the school. 
OH - Middle School teacher + spycam + 2 female teachers in teachers-only bathroom.
OH - High school coach + camera in Boy's Locker Room, pleads not guilty. 
CT - School psychologist + camera + house guest.

Darwin Awards...
AR - Wife finds video of underage girl on his/her computer. He filmed himself setting it up.
Canada - Likes to watch women sleep. Voyeurism no, B&E yes. Cell phone left behind.

UK - Male nurse arrested for spycaming at Stonyhurst College found hanged at home.

SpyCam Story #663 - This Month In SpyCam News

SpyCam stories have become commonplace and the techniques used, repetitive. We continue to keep lose track of the subject for statistical purposes, but won't bore you with too many details. Links supplied.

School Daze...

NJ - Locker room spycam defense?!?! - it never endangered the welfare of any child. 

VA - Registrar's Office spycam defense - hormone imbalance.

OH - School teacher charged - spycam'ing two female teachers in teachers-only bathroom.

WA - High School sleepover spycam'er pleads guilty.

CA - U of T - iPhone spotted in bathroom stall - man charged with voyeurism and mischief.

Charges Laid...

CT - Busted - bedroom spycam'er filmed four female partners.

CA - Dusted - House guest finds video camera recording in a powder room.

LA -  Trusted - Bedroom cam & bathroom cam transmitted wireless to recorder.

MT - Adjusted - Former jailer who spycam'ed a pool changing room charged with burglary.

UK - Lusted - Ex-council member charged - leisure centres, holiday camp and dance studio. 

Men at Work...
UK - Employee used a camera disguised as a pen to film female staff in the toilets.

WA - Playhouse dressing room spycam - closing argument - not for sexual gratification.

GA - Judge finds 'peeping preacher' guilty on 13 counts of video voyeurism.

FL - Mirror ripped from the fitting room wall reveals two hidden cameras, one still recording. 

ID - Man charged - iPhone, recording, hidden in a tissue box in the employee restroom. 

CA - Owner placed camera in his hardware store staff washroom.

CT - Subway employee placed under sink camera in unisex bathroom. 

LA - Gynecologist charged - secretly photographedthe genitals of his patients... 186 times

Only You Can Pervert...

FL - Park employee kept eye on bathroom with iPhone - victim chases, snags plate, nailed.

WA - Park employee arrested, accused of recording a teenage girl in a park restroom. 

Darwin Awards to...

CT - Man admits to 4 photos of woman in next shower... 2 turned out to be of his own hand.

UK - Man uses USB stick camera to film woman - proof - shot himself while setting it up.

IN - Man hides iPod in girlfriend's bathroom - proof - shot himself while hiding it.

UT - Wife finds upskirt pix on husband's cell - calls cops - proof - shot himself while filming.

OH - Spycam'er uses clock radio, camera hidden within - poof - shot himself... with a gun!

The Tanning Guys...

AR - 16-year-old boy was arrested - cam'ed a woman after she got out of a tanning bed. 

AR - Man charged - cam'ing girls using his tanning bed, then tampering with the evidence.

AR - Tanning salon manager booked on suspicion of voyeurism.

(Arkansas and tanning salon pervs. Weird.)

IN - Fox in henhouse - Stephan Fox pleaded guilty to taping women in tanning salon.

SpyCam Story #656 - This Week in SpyCam News

SpyCam stories have become commonplace and the techniques used, repetitive. While I will continue to keep lose track of the subject for statistical purposes, I won't bore you with the details. Only links to the stories will be supplied unless there is something useful to be learned.

SC - Teen in school Girl's Room with camera.

OR - Man in theater dressing room with camera.
IN - Former Notre Dame assistant registrar - video in bathrooms and dressing rooms.

WA - Missing Susan Powell's husband, and his father, video voyeurism.

SC - Two indictments in Myrtle Beach on voyeurism charges.

NJ - Rutgers spycam trial continues.

IN - Shoecam man sentensed to six months.

ID - Sister-in-law spycam'er appeals.

NC - Middle school teacher spycam'ing bathroom.

WA - High school teacher charged with voyeurism resigns.

ID - Man charged with video voyeurism; no details.

IN - High school custodian spycam's Boy's locker room.

FL - Man charged with through-the-bedroom-window video voyeurism.

UK - Camera in business washroom charged filed.

NY - Man spycam'ing in local tanning salon.

OH - Man videos woman in shower, three times.

IN - New trial date for swim coach accused of locker room filming.

FL - New video voyeur legislation making progress.

NM - Spycam in business bathroom; allegedly installed by owner.

SpyCam Story #661 - This Week in SpyCam News

SpyCam stories have become commonplace and the techniques used, repetitive. We continue to keep lose track of the subject for statistical purposes, but won't bore you with too many details. Links supplied.
 

Australia - A Sydney bus driver has been jailed for filming up the skirts of schoolgirls.

CT - IT employee fired, his company iPhone found live-streaming video of bathroom.

UK - 14-year-old girl in the shower notices shave box with ‘suspicious looking hole’ in it.

UK - Man with spy pen strikes again, and again...

LA - Rambo slams man 12-years for recording video of nude women tanning.

UK - Camera found in the staff lavatories at day nursery. Employee arrested.

Canada - Man who used cellphone to peep has avoided jail.

UK - Triple karate world champion (and spycam'er) has sentence chopped.
WI - Bedroom C.B. DeMille gets 90-days in jail, on weekends.
CT - Man accused of hiding cameras in public men's rooms returning to court.
TN - Evangelist pleads guilty in Tennessee... Charges in Texas and Mississippi next.
WA - Second dressing room spycam case this year at Olympia Goodwill store.
FL - Motel restroom spycam'er re-arrested.
CT - Weird. Spycam'ed mother of girl he'd been convicted of spying on six years ago.
UK - Victim trying on bras captures her spycam'er for police.
Canada - Dumb man using smart phone.
WA - Steven Powell, father-in-law of missing Utah mom Susan Powell, sentenced.
IL - Government not libel for secret videotape of employee changing into uniform.

SpyCam Story #659 - This Week in SpyCam News

SpyCam stories have become commonplace and the techniques used, repetitive. We continue to keep lose track of the subject for statistical purposes, but won't bore you with too many details. Only links to the stories will be supplied unless there is something useful to be learned.

AZ - School principal and assistant caught passionately kissing via student cell phone.
Australia - Father jailed for hidden camera in the bathroom where his daughters showered.
CA - Maintenance man at Sears arrested for allegedly filming women in changing rooms.
Internet - Spycam Magazine - A new magazine focusing on hidden and spycam products.

SC - Cellphone camera in a toilet roll filmed female employees. Security guard charged.

FL - Teacher accused of using a pen camera to video girls changing for gym.
UK - Man rigged up a spy camera to secretly watch a teenage girl in the bath.
IN - Notre Dame pen SpyCam Man escapes jail time.
UK - Man convicted of using spycam pen in toilet.
WA - Voyeurism evidence against father-in-law of missing mother Susan Powell admitted.
CA - York University - At least six incidents of voyeurism this year on campus.
ID - Former high school teacher made plea deal he secretly videotaped students
FL  - Man accused of cellphone video of women in Target, Walmart and Publix.
IN - Mom files half-million dollar lawsuit against a former high school janitor accused of secretly filming her son and 41 other boys in a school locker room
UK - Web designer who spied on three young women given a community order.
IN - High school basketball player charged. Cell phone video in the locker room.
MS - Complainant found videos of herself fully naked of her taking a bath on computer.
TN - A 33-year-old Baptist youth evangelist investigated in three states for video voyeurism.

SpyCam Story #657 - This Week in SpyCam News

SpyCam stories have become commonplace and the techniques used, repetitive. We continue to keep lose track of the subject for statistical purposes, but won't bore you with the details. Only links to the stories will be supplied unless there is something useful to be learned.

CA - Man spying in college Men's Restroom- Low tech, using mirror.

NJ - Jury gets case in Rutgers webcam spying trial.

Canada - Man charged with voyeurism in Halifax has waived his right to a bail hearing.

LA - Man faces 23 more counts of video voyeurism and child pornography.

LA - Guard's coat-hook cams in 2 office ladies restroom and on dumpster at Marti Gras.

UT - Man tapes encounter with BYU male student and tried to extort money for silence.

UK - Teacher secretly filmed women and kids, many locations – including Botanical Gardens.

Canada - Pen spycam captures woman swim teacher in changing room.

Canada - City sweeps all the change rooms of all the swimming pools for staff and citizens.

OH - Park ranger indicted - accused of placing an iPod on record mode in a restroom.

UT - Man charged with voyeurism - allegedly set up cameras in estranged wife’s bedroom.

MA - Man arraigned for cell phone spycaming in YMCA girl's locker room. 

NV - School police use hidden cameras, catch teacher's aide roughing two students.

FL - Video voyeurism bill passes House and Senate; goes to Gov. Rick Scott. 

MS - Mississippi bill would make voyeurism a felony... but only if victim is under 16.

Australia - Former lawyer jailed for indecently filming boys with hidden cameras.

IL - Man taped employees of local restaurant using commodes in employees' bathroom.

ID - Man indited on video voyeurism - woman unable to resist due to being drugged.

UT - Previously convicted spycam'er at University of Utah re-arrested.

IN - Former Notre Dame office employee pleds guilty - pen cam in women's restroom.

LA - Man in Pecanland Mall men's room looking for nuts with cell cam.

SpyCam Story #660 - This Week in SpyCam News

SpyCam stories have become commonplace and the techniques used, repetitive. We continue to keep lose track of the subject for statistical purposes, but won't bore you with too many details. Only links to the stories will be supplied unless there is something useful to be learned.

OH - Woman catches spycam'er, takes his phone, calls police, punches and detains him. 

NJ - Student who used a webcam to spy on gay roommate sentenced to 30 days in jail. 

FL - Home theater installer charged with video voyeurism.

TN - Man guilty of phone'caming Miss Tennessee in tanning booth.

Canada - Man facing 28 charges for voyeurism, and writing obscene notes on stalls.

WA - Steve Powell convicted of 14 counts of voyeurism.

AR - Trial delayed... video camera where several teenage girls came to use a tanning bed.

FL - Deputy arrested for taking photos of naked woman, sent to ex-huband and daughter. 

FL - (Ironic) Store CCTV records man putting cell phone underneath the victim's dress.

IN - Pastor charged with placing two air freshener spycams in women's room stalls.

Canada - No bail for man accused of five counts of voyeurism. 

KY - (Dumb) Two students busted for upskirting video of teacher. Posted it on YouTube.

SC - Tanning salon worker faces 3rd charge of voyeurism.

FL - Another Florida upskirter sentenced. Also caught on store CCTV.

OH - The Doctor is out. Charged with three counts of voyeurism and more.

WA - Playhouse employee allegedly spycam'ed an actress undressing in staff bathroom.

SC - Security guard arrested. Caught taping female co-workers in a bathroom.

IN - Former Notre Dame employee gets probation for pen-cam in women's bathroom.

FL- Teacher charged with hiding 3 pen-cams where female students change for gym.

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Recent Spycam News

FL - A Bradenton man was arrested July 24 for shooting video of a girl undressing in a beach changing station. more & more

FL - Justin Stueve is accused of rape and video voyeurism of his then-wife, who said she found a thumb drive full of explicit photos of herself. A judge has ruled that defense attorneys will be allowed to review photos allegedly taken by their client of his ex-wife while she was unconscious. more 

Japan - Police in Tokyo have arrested a 34-year-old man and his 35-year-old common-law wife on suspicion of extortion after they threatened a man that they would report him to police for taking upskirt videos of the woman unless he paid them money...The man agreed to pay 1.1 million yen in return for not being reported to the police. more

WA - Former Arlington Christian teacher charged with voyeurism. more

UT - Deputies arrest 26-year-old for suspected voyeurism after parents find him on roof. more

WA - Outlook man charged with voyeurism of 15-year-old girl. more

LA - A Bossier Parish school teacher...at Benton Elementary School faces 30 new charges...(including) 10 counts of video voyeurism. more

UK - Firm pursues damage claims for victims of disgraced doctor...Given the large number of images taken it is possible many women who saw Dr Altaii were covertly filmed yet remain unaware of that fact even today. more

S. Korea - South Korean singer A investigated for illegally filming women...A is suspected of secretly filming the bodies of several women, including sex scenes, using hidden cameras until early this year...South Korea is notorious for illegal filming crimes also known as molka crimes. more

(BTW - Spycam Detection Training now has Korean sub-titles.)

Canada - A suspended Mountie charged with sex crimes by two different police services across the country is alleged to have secretly filmed women 34 times inside the bathroom of his south Ottawa apartment, during sex and in hotel rooms. more

FL - Robert Privette, 49, was staying at the DoubleTree resort in Key West when he is alleged to have heard two women in the room next door returning from the beach. Privette is then said to have managed to slide a tiny spy camera surreptitiously under the door of the room in order to film the pair, aged 24 and 27, as they undressed after a day on the sands. more

AR - A 41-year-old man accused of secretly videotaping a female teenager with a hidden camera in a Bluetooth speaker is facing video voyeurism and child pornography charges. more

India - A man arrested for voyeurism jumped into the sea while being taken to the beach by the police to collect evidence on Wednesday. His hands were cuffed. His body is yet to be found. more

UK - A former presenter of BBC News...who has shifted his career from being a British TV news personality to evangelical preaching, said most of these offences were committed with children during the past 30 years...He also admitted to two counts of making explicit videos of children... more

UK - A man has admitted using a hidden camera to film people using the toilet in Bristol...Prosecutor May Li said Andrews was discovered when one of the victims noticed a green light above a doorway and saw it was a hidden camera. When she looked at what was in the memory card, she saw Andrews’ face in the footage. (Darwin Award) more

You too can find hidden spy cameras. more

This Week in Spycam News

S. Korea - A South Korean TV star has resigned over claims he secretly filmed a woman’s lower body, in the country’s latest celebrity spycam scandal. Presenter Kim Sung-joon pleaded for ‘forgiveness’ after police allegedly caught him red-handed at a metro station in Seoul. more

ID - A Monteview man is facing a felony charge after he admitted to hiding a camera in a bathroom and videotaping people naked, according to court documents. He contacted deputies with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday, saying he wanted to turn himself in. During the phone call with a deputy, Roundy said he videotaped people taking showers at his home. He told the deputy he knew it was wrong and wanted to know if he could turn himself in on Friday. more

N. Ireland - An ex-children’s nurse accused of inventing a VIP paedophile gang told jurors he set up a hidden camera to film a boy using a toilet out of “curiosity” to see if he found sexual gratification in it. more

India - Days after a 27-year-old model had filed a case against a skin specialist popular among celebrities, accusing her of clandestinely installing a spy camera in her clinic at Lokhan Complex, Andheri West, and taking her pictures, the Oshiwara police arrested the doctor on Monday. more

FL - A Firestone Complete Auto Care employee was arrested Tuesday after recording at least two female customers using the restroom, the Port Orange Police Department... Police were notified of the recording after one of the victims found a recorder inside the women’s restroom. more

LA - The Jefferson Parish District Attorney has brought formal charges in the case of a camera in a restroom at Smoothie King headquarters in Metairie... He allegedly put the camera under a bathroom cabinet at the company's offices when he worked for Smoothie King. more

Canada - A 22-year-old man has been arrested after allegedly filming multiple women changing in a unisex change room at the Eaton Centre... The man then entered the change rooms and placed a homemade recording device on the floor between change room stalls and recorded numerous females changing. A woman occupying one of the change rooms noticed the device on the floor and immediately notified security and police. more

IN - A 20-year-old employee of an Indiana auto parts store has been charged with possession of child pornography and voyeurism after two 10-year-old girls uncovered a cell phone used to film in the company's staff bathroom... The filming device was discovered by the girls hidden behind a plunger and bottles of cleaning products. It had been placed slightly to the left of the toilet. One of the girls had just used the toilet and the other was partially undressed when they discovered the camera. more

Canada - A man pleaded guilty in a London courtroom Tuesday for secretly video taping his family and friends while they were using the bathroom. The court heard that the man set up a hidden camera in the bathroom of his home and recorded about 20 people between 2010 and 2017. He was charged by police after his daughter discovered the camera and told her mother. more

...and a major story from mid-June that slipped through the cracks...

New Zealand - Ninety women, 81 images, 30 hours of hidden camera video - the victims' stories... more

Spycam Facts:

• Most spycam attacks go undetected.
• A few are discovered... almost all by accident.
• Only a few of these are reported to the police.
• Only a few of these cases are solved.
• Only a few of these cases make the news.
• Only few of these make it to my desk.
• I only share a few of them with you.

Any organization with expectation of privacy areas needs to consider this to protect their employees, visitors and customers... and themselves, from forseeability law suits.

Time to read the next post and let it all sink in.

SpyCam Story #614 - Recent SpyCam News

OH - A Catawba man was arrested and jailed Monday after investigators say he used a covert camera to record two girls in the shower at his home.

Jack Lee Maley, 45, of 350 N. Champaign St., was taken into custody and charged with three counts of illegal use of minor in nudity oriented material or performance, second degree felonies. One of the juveniles found the camera and reported it to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office. Further investigation revealed that a second juvenile female had also been captured on video as she showered. Neither juvenile was aware they were being recorded. (more)

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CA - A Southern California computer repairman suspected of installing spyware on laptops that enabled him to snap and download photographs of women showering and undressing in their homes was arrested Wednesday at his home, police said.

Police began investigating when a Fullerton resident complained about suspicious messages appearing on his daughter's computer last year...

The software sent fake error messages telling users to "fix their internal sensor soon," and "try putting your laptop near hot steam for several minutes to clean the sensor," Goodrich said. (video) (No blond jokes, please.)

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KS - Hiding in plain sight, a camera recording people without their knowledge or consent. Police are trying to figure out who put a hidden camera in the changing room of the north YMCA. It was hidden inside a clothing hook.

"Someone bumped into it and if fell off and discovered it was a camera," said Lt. Randy Reynolds of the Wichita Police Department. (more)
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CA - A man arrested by Glendora Police for placing a spycam in a Starbucks restroom in Glendora pleaded not guilty in a Pomona Superior Courthouse Tuesday morning.

William Zafra Velasco, 25, was arrested May 4 after he confessed to installing a hidden camera disguised as a plastic hook in a women’s Starbucks restroom in Glendora. (more)
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OH - A 59-year-old Tallmadge man was sentenced to seven years in prison Monday for using his cellphone to film a 13-year-old girl getting out of the shower.
Summit County Common Pleas Judge Paul Gallagher sentenced William Chesrown to prison after he was found guilty by a jury on May 16 of gross sexual imposition, two counts of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material.

The prosecutor said in December the young girl noticed Chesrown's cellphone pointing at her with the record light on as she got out of the shower. She discovered five nude videos of herself saved on the phone. (more)

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FL - The manager at a Starbucks store in the Brandon Town Center mall called police after finding a device left behind in the cafe's public restroom.

It turns out it was a camera -- but the apparent spy was not as sly as he thought. Police say he left the camera rolling as he got in his car one day, giving them a glimpse of his license plate.

Eric Efaw was arrested and charged with voyeurism yesterday. Police say he admitted to putting the camera in the unisex bathroom, and that he's done it six to seven times in the last two months. (more)
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SpyCam Story #658 - This Week in SpyCam News

SpyCam stories have become commonplace and the techniques used, repetitive. We continue to keep lose track of the subject for statistical purposes, but won't bore you with the details. Only links to the stories will be supplied unless there is something useful to be learned.

Azerbaijan - Sex video used to blackmail Azerbaijani journalist.
UK - Garage ‘spies at the pumps’ could cut off fuel supply for uninsured driver. 

IL - Cubs install cameras in their minor-league stadiums...One team official called it “Spycam"

Canada - Two women charged with voyeurism...photo'ed man using cell and shared.

Canada - Man with hidden camera who filmed sex with unsuspecting women sentenced.

Canada - Scouts ex-leader faces child pornography charges.

AR - Middle school student faces charge of video voyeurism.

UK - Dentist arrested over ‘voyeurism’.

OH - Woman confronted suspect over cellphone videos at tanning salon.

SC - Man accused of placing a video recorder his bathroom during St. Patrick's Day party.  

IN - Child porn charges filed over camera found hidden in high school boys locker room.

FL - Man accused of using a camera pen to capture images of a woman in her bathroom. 

FL - Gov. Scott signs video voyeurism bill.

RI - URI basketball player charged with video voyeurism. Also wanted by Florida police.

LA - Security Guard Gets More Charges In Video Voyeurism Case.

RI - Video voyeurism reports on the rise.

NC - Stepfather jailed for voyeurism attempt. Cameras were hidden in teen girl's room.

TX - Traveling evangelist accused of filming in church bathrooms. Three states investigating.

MA - Man recorded teen, mother in bathroom.

UK - Man alleged to have filmed women using the bathroom gets court date.

Canada - Uni. of Waterloo employee caught using his iPhone to take videos pleads guilty.

NJ - Security specialist loses Top Secret clearance over underskirt videos.

SC - Employee discovers camera attached to a urinal in men's bathroom at a textile plant.

This Week in Spycam News

AZ - A Phoenix-based American Airlines flight attendant was sentenced to five years of probation for taking videos of men and boys using public restrooms. more

WA - Ex-South Seattle College director Gene Baker 52 was arrested last Tuesday after a teenage tenant of his told police that he had planted a camera in an alarm clock in her bedroom and that it had captured footage of her in various states of dress. more

Japan - An analysis of 406 patients who visited a sex addiction clinic here for treatment for camera voyeurism showed that they took 1,000 peeping shots on average before seeking medical help, a clinic official reported. more

S. Korea - Police recently busted a website that was used to share pornographic pictures -- including spycam porn -- arresting the suspected owner and booking 86 others without detention. more

UK - A man who took covert video footage of young women in a state of undress has been jailed for six months and placed on the sex offenders register. Jonathan Thomas Watson, 21, from Harrogate, videoed one woman as she was getting changed in a cubicle at Knaresborough Swimming Pool...Watson filmed six other females at a property in Knaresborough using similar covert means. more

FL - Investigators say a Florida teacher confessed to secretly videotaping a high school student as she changed her shirt. more

S. Korea - After a months-long investigation into Yang Jin-ho, the owner of the nation's two biggest file sharing sites, police have confirmed the existence of a million-dollar cartel for the production and distribution of spycam porn videos. Apart from owning WeDisk and Filenori, file sharing platforms where spycam clips and revenge porn were circulated, police found Yang had a hand in virtually every stage of the profitable operation. more

Last Month in Spycam News

TX - The Dallas Cowboys recently paid a $2.4 million settlement stemming from allegations of voyeurism against Rich Dalrymple, the team's former head of public relations, levied by several members of the organization's cheerleading squad. more

A cautionary tale... I was retained this past year as an expert witness in a spy camera case. The client was a victim of a spycam secreted in a chain restaurant restroom. I am pleased to tell you our side just won their lawsuit. The defendant settled for an undisclosed amount.

Businesses that have expectation-of-privacy areas need a Recording in the Workplace Policy and an inspection program in place.

Canada - Police are searching for a suspect after a woman reported being recorded while in a change room at a Metro Vancouver mall. more

Canada - Man jailed 30 months for hiding 'spy cameras' in bathroom to catch his roommate’s teen-aged daughter. more

UT - A man suspected of using his phone to film a female in a North Logan Walmart changing room was charged in 1st District Court on Friday. more

Canada - A former property manager in the Annapolis Valley has pleaded guilty to a charge of voyeurism involving a two-way mirror. more

S. Korea - Co-published by TIME and Field of Vision, the documentary Open Shutters follows Jieun Choi, a journalist in South Korea investigating the country’s plague of spycams. more

Canada - A 23-year-old man has been charged after allegedly hiding a cellphone in a women’s washroom at an Ajax hospital. more

CT - A local man was charged with voyeurism Saturday after a juvenile discovered a cellphone hidden in the bathroom of a residence. more

FL - On March 10th, OPD released a video of 28-year old Justin Wright setting up a camera at a Circle K gas station in the city. more

Singapore - After getting away with taking upskirt videos at a shopping mall because the victim did not report him to the police, a Singaporean man continued committing voyeuristic acts on colleagues and his in-laws. more

OH - Ex-funeral home owner pleads guilty... he installed a camera in the women’s bathroom at the former Slack and Wallace Funeral Home. more

UT - Ex-Sandy Fire captain faces 15 felony counts, accused of secretly filming girls undressing...he had been “hiding cameras in a home business space where teenage girls would undress,” more

TN - Families Notified Of 30 Cleveland Middle School Girls Captured On Covert Camera Placed By Teacher more

FL - Man placed phone on bottom of shopping cart, recorded under women’s dresses at grocery store. more

UK - Former Leeds soldier who hid spycam in girls' changing room jailed after admitting voyeurism charges. more

Singapore - Ex-NTU researcher jailed for taking upskirt photos of 400 women over 6 years. more

Northern Ireland - A disgraced guest house owner who narrowly avoided jail after he was caught filming men and boys in toilets is now challenging the sentence that kept him out of prison. more

Singapore - Ex-teacher jailed 10 weeks, fined for taking voyeuristic videos of colleagues, students and policeman more

Vietnam - A woman from Vietnam hacked off her husband’s penis after using a spy camera to see him indulging in inappropriate behavior with his niece. more

Reddit - Looks like my cat Beans found the pet cam I set up to spy on him from work. video

FL - A Sarasota acupuncturist ...used a spy camera that doubled as a functional pen to record the patient undressing. more

SC - A Virginia Beach man has been arrested for allegedly recording inappropriate video of a student on the Medical University of South Carolina campus. more

UK - Hospital chiefs say they have been working closely with police after a man was charged with filming a woman in its toilets, and then attempting to blackmail her on social media into paying £1,000. mor

WA - An Oregon man has been sentenced to more than six years in prison for recording people using the restroom at a Vancouver hospital and possessing child pornography. more

AR - Ashton Jaleel Thomas, 26, of Springdale, was arrested on suspicion of committing multiple acts of video voyeurism at the changing rooms in a Rogers Goodwill store. more

Singapore - A 40-year-old man used spy cameras to film videos of female friends and co-workers using the toilet in several locations, including his home, his friends' homes and his workplace. more 

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