“The restaurant did not report this to us,” Lt. Philip Harrington said on Tuesday. “As a result they could face ramifications down the road. I don’t know.”
Sores-Fernandes is a 38-year-old Allston resident. Police say he worked at Zaftigs at the time the camera was placed in the handicap bathroom.
SAN DIEGO –  A two-count criminal complaint unsealed in federal court Monday charges a U.S. Border Patrol supervisor with video voyeurism for allegedly placing a video camera in a women’s restroom at the agency’s offices in San Ysidro.
Armando Gonzalez, 45, is also charged with making false statements. He made his initial court appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jill Burkhardt, who set bail at $50,000 and issued an order forbidding the defendant from contacting alleged victims, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Two of the victims, including the agent who found the camera, have asked the court to grant them restraining orders against Gonzalez, claiming they’re afraid Gonzalez, who has access to firearms, will come after them.
A March 19 preliminary hearing and April 2 arraignment were set for Gonzalez, who was arrested Friday.
The complaint alleges Gonzalez made false statements when he stated that the images captured on the hidden camera, were not related to a drug investigation, were deleted, when in fact they were saved.
Prosecutors also said Gonzalez initially reported the camera had been in place briefly.
“He told agents when he self reported that the camera had been there for only a few days when in truth and in fact it had been there for at least two years, we have evidence of videos going back that long,” said Alessandra Serano, Assistant U.S. Attorney.
Serano also said Gonzalez made more than 300 videos.
Beginning in July 2013 and continuing through at least Jan. 9 of this year, Gonzalez allegedly captured images of women’s private areas without their consent, according to the charging document.
According to a statement of probable cause, the hidden video camera contained video files showing a white man believed to be Gonzalez using a screwdriver to install the camera in a drain in the women’s restroom; a woman’s undergarment clad breast as she changed her shirt in the restroom; and part of a woman’s naked buttock as she prepared to sit on the toilet and again as she stood.
Investigators searched the defendant’s office last month and allegedly found video files containing images recorded inside the restroom that showed the private areas of multiple female victims, including images of naked and/or undergarment clad genital, pubic area, buttock and/or woman’s breasts as the victims changed and/or used the toilet.
When F.B.I agents searched Gonzalez’s camera, they found more than 160 different recordings in the camera’s memory card.
According to the statement of probable cause, Gonzalez told officials that he placed the video recorder in the restroom because he suspected one of his employees was engaging in illegal drug use at work.
After the hearing, Gonzalez’s defense attorney, Jan Ronis, did not say much about his client’s defense or why and how the camera ended up in the drain. Ronis did mention Gonzalez is married and has a very supportive family.
Police say two women were videotaped inside of their own home.
The peeping tom in this case was crafty enough to break into the home and install a camera, but not smart enough to keep that camera from capturing video of himself, which is now in the hands of the Howard County Police Department.
The videos show the suspect walking through the womens’ home and eventually installing the camera inside of a closet.
He apparently kept it running, and went back into the condominium unit several times to retrieve the videos of the two women who live there, and move the camera to different locations.
Both of the victims are in their 20’s.
“I’m surprised but I guess I’m not completely shocked because i hear things like that.  But it’s surprising that it’s here,” said Trish Kirsch, who has lived in The Villages of Montgomery Run condominium complex for 10 years.
Other residents say they’d heard about the high-tech peeping tom from a community watch e-mail.
“Some stranger had entered an apartment with two girls living there, and he videotaped their bedrooms,” said Tayseer Elbeshir.
Police say it started in June — and the man kept coming back until recently, when one of the women found the camera, and called police.
“There doesn’t appear to have been forced entry so we’re not sure how he gained access to the apartment, and he apparently did it multiple times,” said Sherry Llewellyn, a spokeswoman for the Howard County Police Department.
Each condominium in the complex is individually owned, and many of them are rented out; police have already checked maintenance people and contractors working in the area.
The locks on the womens’ door have been changed — but police have not been able to identify the man who managed to video-tape himself committing a crime, yet.
“It’s a beautiful area; it’s a beautiful quiet neighborhood,” Elbeshir said. “So something like this to happen is weird.  It’s different.”
In some of those videos the man is wearing what might be a work uniform.
Lee Price hid device behind pipe in toilet so he could watch women
Admitted planting the ÂŁ30 camera after it was discovered by an employee
Pervert was jailed for six months after being found guilty of voyeurism
By
Sam Adams
Voyeur: Lee Price, 36, was jailed after using a secret camera pen to spy on female employees as they used the toilet
A factory boss has been jailed after using a hidden camera ‘spy’ pen to film female employees as they used the toilet.
Lee Price, 36, bought the device to secretly watch his young staff as they used the lavatory at the Odeon Furniture Factory in Tredegar, Gwent – where he was production manager.
He tucked the pen, which was bought over the internet, at the back of a pipe in the toilet at the plant.
A court heard how Price set up the hidden camera half a dozen times over the space of three months.
But it was finally found after a woman employee spotted a light flashing on the pen after she had used the toilet.
She realised there was a pinhole camera in the top of the pen – and twisted it open to find a memory stick inside.
She took it to a local computer store where they discovered the USB stick contained 14 minutes of movie footage.
Notices were put up appealing for information at the Odeon Furniture Factory in Tredegar, Gwent.
Price handed himself in – admitting he had rigged up the secret spy pen bought for less than ÂŁ30 on the internet.
Prosecutor Lisa James said: ‘At
first, Price said it was to try and catch a cleaner who he suspected of
hiding there to avoid her duties.
‘But he changed his story, saying he
was trying to spy on a woman and record her texting or phoning a man he
suspected she was having an affair with.’
Price, of Blaina, Gwent, was jailed for six months at Caerphilly magistrates after being found guilty of voyeurism.
Michael
Hall, defending, said: ‘He is deeply embarrassed and ashamed about
this. He accepts that he has caused deep humiliation and anger for all
those concerned.
‘This has been deeply disturbing for his family but they are standing by him knowing what he has done.’
He later resigned from the factory where he worked for 16 years.
Secret: Price positioned a camera ‘spy’ pen (similar to this one) behind a pipe in the toilet (file picture)
District Judge Richard Williams told him: ‘You were trying to gratify your perverted sexual lust.
‘The effect on the women you filmed is considerable. The word ‘horror’ was used by one when she found out.
‘In some ways this is more instructive than a sexual act – going to the toilet is something people expect to do in private. These were graphic moving images.
‘Your evidence was a pack of lies. Because of your perverted wish to gain sexual gratification, you invaded women’s privacy.’
COUNCIL WORKER USED HIDDEN CAMERA TO FILM UP WOMEN’S SKIRTS
Pervert: Christopher Hardie arriving at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court
A council worker who spied on female colleagues by installing a hidden camera to peer up their skirts has been jailed for 16 months.
Christopher Hardie, 51, set up recording equipment under his desk at Stoke-on-Trent Council’s environmental services department where he worked so that he could secretly film his workmates.
Hardie was found out when one shocked co-worker found the device. After his arrest earlier this year it was later discovered that ‘obsessed’ Hardie had been filming female colleagues for his own sexual gratification for at least five months.
He was jailed for 16-months on Thursday after admitting eight counts of voyeurism – which also included installing cameras at a house between 2008 and 2012. He must also sign the Sex Offenders’ Register for 10 years.
The court heard Hardie threw the
camera in a canal after being uncovered by colleagues while other
equipment was found in skips at the site.
Memory cards, USB sticks and three camcorders were also found at his home.
The court heard Hardie, from Stafford, had been kicked out of his family home since the allegations came to light.
Jailing Hardie, Judge Granville Styler said: ‘I understand the devastating effect this has had on you. You have lost your job and family.
‘But these are serious matters which give the public and victims great discomfort.
‘It was a series of offences which took considerable planning. You have an obsession that gives you sexual gratification.’
Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court had heard that Hardie’s actions had impacted on council staff – leaving them feeling humiliated.
In a statement, one victim said: ‘This will be with me for life. Words can’t explain the embarrassment and the mental anguish. I now only feel safe in my own home.’
MURFEESBORO, Tenn. — Murfreesboro Police are looking for a stalker after the victim found a hidden camera secretly watching her home.
“It effects every facet of my life,” said Gina Wiser.
For months Wiser has been dealing with a stalker making phone calls or following from a distance. This past weekend she discovered a box attached to the light pole on the street outside her home.Suspicious of the device Wiser called police.
They took the box down and discovered a camera inside that had been pointed right at her home. It’s similar to those used by hunters to capture images of game like deer.
“This was probably a first where somebody used a device to monitor wildlife to stalk a human,” said Kyle Evans with the Murfreesboro Police Dept.
Wiser wonders what will happen next.
“It effects everything you do from the moment you wake up till when you toss and turn at night because you never know where he might be,” said Wiser.
Police have not yet made an arrest. They believe the stalker is someone Wiser knows. They do have several leads, especially with the new piece of evidence.
Detectives hope to track the buyer of the high tech camera.
