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Accused panties thief now charged in mall up-skirting incident

A Montgomery County man, arrested earlier this year for stealing the underwear of a woman he was allegedly stalking, was charged this week with using a hidden camera to film up the skirt of another woman at the King of Prussia Plaza.

Kornwell Chan, of Dresher, was spotted at the Plaza near Lord Taylor on Sunday, May 13, by an undercover officer who noted Chan’s resemblance to a suspect wanted in a up-skirting incident at the nearby J.C. Penney in September 2011, said Risa Vetri Ferman, the Montgomery County District Attorney.

Upper Merion police officers stopped Chan inside the mall and discovered he was carrying a bag with a camera secreted inside it.

Officers reviewed the footagewhich showed Chan following a woman at Penney’s and placing the hidden camera under her skirt, showing her underwear, Ferman said.

Chan, charged Wendesday with invasion of privacy and related counts, was ordered to be held on $500,000 bail.

Chan was previously charged in January with counts of burglary, criminal trespass, stalking and related counts in a separate incident. Chan allegedly had aggressively pursued met a woman at the Oreland train station. After the woman sought ways to avoid him, he broke into her house stealing only her bras and panties. While inside the house he turned all the family photographs of her face-down with the exception of her portrait.

A preliminary hearing before Magisterial District Judge William I. Maruszczak is set for 10 a.m. at 485 South Henderson Road in King of Prussia.


Nanny ‘caught on a hidden camera shoving a soiled baby wipe down a baby’s throat’

A nanny has been jailed after she was caught on a hidden camera shoving a soiled baby wipe down a baby’s throat.

Elvira Talavera Perez was also secretly filmed by a ‘nanny-cam’ dropping a soiled diaper on the 10-month-old boy in her care.

The 43-year-old had been hired by a family in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in July 2011 to look after their newborn son.

Child abuse: Elvira Talavera Perez, 43, of New Mexico has been jailed after she was caught on a hidden camera shoving a soiled baby wipe down a baby's throat

Child abuse: Elvira Talavera Perez, 43, of New Mexico has been jailed after she was caught on a hidden camera shoving a soiled baby wipe down a baby’s throat

But after five months they noticed jewellery,including gold chains and earrings, had gone missing from their home.

The parents and set up a hidden ‘nanny-cam’ inside their bedroom to see if Perez was responsible for the alleged thefts.

Police said the parents expected to catch Perez stealing items but were horrified to see their son allegedly being abused.

Investigators said the video showed Perez shoving a soiled wipe into the baby’s mouth.

Caught: The baby's parents set up the hidden camera after jewelry went missing in their home, catching instead the nanny abusing their child on its changing table (file photo)

Caught: The baby’s parents set up the hidden camera after jewelry went missing in their home, catching instead the nanny abusing their child on its changing table (file photo)

On another occasion she is alleged to have dropped a soiled diaper on to the baby’s face as he lay on the changing mat.

The tapes also showed Perez, who also uses the name Elvira Torres, taking items of jewelry from the parents’ bedroom.

The father handed the tape to Las Cruces police who launched an investigation into the alleged abuse.

Perez was arrested after a two months investigation and is being held at the Dona Ana County Detention Center on a $30,000 bond.

She had been charged with three counts of negligent child abuse.


Man allegedly put hidden camera in bathroom

CARY (WTVD) —

Authorities have arrested a Wake County man after they said he put a hidden camera inside a restaurant bathroom.

John Michael Wronski of Cary was arrested Friday morning.

According to an arrest warrant, the 40-year-old put the camera inside the woman’s bathroom at Papa Murphy’s Pizza Place in Cary.

It also said the camera was in the bathroom while two unidentified victims were inside.

Officials said Wronski is a former employee of the restaurant, and the incidents happened last summer.

Wronski has been charged with secret peeping and has been placed under a $3,000 bond.


Nokia Rips on iPhone in ‘Hidden Camera’ Campaign

While Nokia and ATT aren’t yet taking explicit credit for a new campaign codenamed “Operation Rolling Thunder,” some poking around on the part of WPCentral.com shows that the above spot (which debuted during yesterday’s NBA broadcasts) and its companions are perhaps the handiwork of Butler, Shine, Stern and Partners, which is hyping Nokia’s Lumia 900 LTE smartphone prior to an April 8 launch.

The “hidden camera” spots depict one naysayer doubting the functionality of a poorly-censored iPhone, criticizing its fragility, inability to be used safely outside, and barrage of antenna issues. In fact, the above spot, “Fragile,” compares using the iPhone to taking maybe the worst investment advice of 2007 (though the iPhone will bankrupt you in other ways). Following the spots to “smartphonebetatest.com” leads users to a microsite featuring a countdown clock, all three videos from the campaign, and a teaser trailer featuring SNL alum Chris Parnell (perhaps best known to the kids as 30 Rock’s “Dr. Spaceman”). Is the iPhone actually the result of a half-assed beta test gone awry? Conspiracy theorists, rejoice!

As Daily Tech points out, it’s a bit surprising that ATT is endorsing such a blatant attack on one of its top-selling products. Perhaps it’s a stroke of revenge for Apple giving Verizon and Sprint access to the iPhone. So, dear commenters, who’s your money on in the great “War Against iPhones,” Samsung or Nokia? Two more spots, including one mocking the late Steve Jobs‘ “you’re holding it wrong” admonishment of 2010, after the jump.


Management trainee caught by hidden camera raiding restaurant’s safe

By Jeannette I. Andrade

Philippine Daily Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines—A cleverly hidden security camera led to the arrest late Monday afternoon of an aspiring store manager who allegedly pocketed some P250,000 in cash earnings of a restaurant in Manila, police said.

The manager-in-training of the Classic Savory Restaurant inside the SM San Lazaro Mall in Manila was caught on closed-circuit television footage taking money late Sunday night from the restaurant’s vault and stuffing the bills inside the pockets of his pants.

The damning video led to the man’s arrest at around 5 p.m.  Monday by operatives of the Manila Police District Theft and Robbery Section who caught up with him in his Caloocan City home. Although none of the stolen cash was recovered, the man was charged with qualified theft at the city prosecutor’s office on Tuesday.

Inspector Jimmy Labarda  of the MPD Theft and Robbery Section  said that the alleged robbery happened at around 9 p.m. Sunday  while the restaurant employees were closing the store.

“In the video, (the management trainee) positioned himself behind the counter where the cash vault was concealed underneath. He kept on looking around and watching the restaurant manager who was standing across him and had his back turned, giving out instructions to other employees. (The trainee) then started taking money from the vault and stuffing it inside his pants pockets,” Labarda told the Inquirer.

The theft of two days’ worth of the restaurant’s earnings of P251,000 was discovered on Monday morning, prompting store officials to review CCTV footage of the previous day. After viewing the video, Classic Savory Restaurant area manager Ellen Zaldivia sought the help of the MPD Theft and Robbery Section.

“He (trainee) probably did not know there was a CCTV camera. He has only been employed in the restaurant for a month,” Labarda pointed out, adding that despite the security camera footage taken of him, the suspect denied stealing the money.