Posted on 04/24/2005 10:15:55 AM PDT by KidGlock
Hidden Camera Nabs Alleged Panty Bandit
Man Says He Was Balancing Laundry, Not Stealing
POSTED: 5:25 pm EDT April 22, 2005
UPDATED: 7:43 pm EDT April 22, 2005
MIDDLEBORO, Mass. -- When her pricey panties started disappearing from the laundry room, a Middleboro woman decided to become a detective.
NewsCenter 5's Todd Kazakiewich reported that Gina Roy rigged up a camera and allegedly caught her neighbor on tape stealing her Victoria Secret's underwear.
The alleged victim said her underwear has been disappearing for two years. Although police haven't searched the suspect's apartment for the underwear, a videotape may be all the evidence they need.
"I noticed underwear missing a little at a time. You don't notice until there's a bunch gone that you don't have anymore. We started videotaping and we caught him on the camera," said Roy.
Roy said the tape caught her downstairs neighbor, Dennis Eve, a widower, father of three, special education teacher, and a member of Middleboro's Finance Committee, taking her underwear.
Roy's boyfriend, Adam McGrath, said the videotape tells the whole story.
"One time he puts his hand in. You see him stuff something down the front of his sweatpants, and run over to the door," he said.
Eve vehemently denied stealing any panties.
"Nothing, absolutely nothing," he replied when asked if he took any underwear.
Eve said he was balancing the laundry.
"The laundry was all packed on one side. I shifted a towel and a jacket. Period. Wiped my hands on my shirt and that was it," said Eve.
"Then he's just standing there, and he realizes, sees a plug there that he wasn't sure what it was. so he follows it around, and last thing you see is him climbing on a washing machine and unplugging the camera," said McGrath.
"I don't understand why you would ever go into somebody else's wash machine," Roy said.
Eve said he destroyed the camera thinking the landlord, whom he'd also had prior conflicts with, planted it. Eve is on paid administrative leave from East Junior High School in Brockton.
Eve was charged with larceny and destruction of property. He'll be back in court next month.
Hey, where are our civil libertarians on this one? They are suspiciously missing ~ guy is doing his laundry and while he's in there washing away some woman has filmed him. Then she accuses him of a crime. The police act.
Is the judge going to let her film into his court? America waits with bated breath!
The Three Faces Of Eve.
Rather than deny the thefts, he should appear in court wearing it. These days, no one would dare question a man's decision to cross dress. /sarcasm
To some, panties, wherever placed, are not torture.
Well done Dennis!
Hey, give the guy a break! He needed those underwears for his sex ed demonstrations!
Couldn't he just wait for a sale at Victoria's Secret?
I knew things like this would happen if we passed the Patriot Act.
Prior conflicts with the landlord, on paid administrative leave, destruction of others' property - Not likely to get a Citizenship of the Year Award.
Although police haven't searched the suspect's apartment for the underwear, a videotape may be all the evidence they need. And yet he is charged with larceny. Why didn't they perform a search.
Also, did he 'unplug' the camera or destroy it? I guess the latter, but if he destroyed it, how do they have the videotape?
We're all aware of the phenomena of the escaping socks, which applies to underwear too. So, I don't know. If this guys innocent, it's a shame for him to be accused of such a 'perve-alert' crime.
She was kind of slow to get suspicious.
I think this guy might be innocent.
A "sale" at Victoria's Secret is where they cut the price of underwear they can't sell, and leave the ones you actually WANT at around $42 a pair.
Vicki's REAL secret is that she takes about a 75% markup on the merchandise.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, saith the warrior princess who wouldn't be caught dead outside her Miracle Bra.
Now, see, I'd rearrange the laundry for the person provided I knew whose it was and we know one another. I've folded people's laundry when I needed to use the dryer but their dry clothes were still in it.
The only thing I ever miss from the laundry is one sock.
Sure can't tell by the monikers!
Roy's the girlfriend, Adam's the boyfriend (an innocent bystander), and Eve's the man who steals panties.
That hurt my brain to figure out.
Wash machines eat socks, so they might eat panties also.
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