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A California man placed a hidden camera inside a Starbucks bathroom and filmed dozens of unsuspecting women and children, according to police. The camera was disguised as a coat hook and affixed to a wall adjacent to a toilet for two days last month. William Zafra Velasco, 25, was arrested earlier this month by Glendora Police Department officers, who executed search warrants at the San Dimas home of the unemployed student. Detectives examining Velasco’s computers discovered “disturbing video of at least 45 female victims using the restroom, including children,” according to investigators. Velasco, pictured in the above mug shot, was...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A Philadelphia-area school district agreed Monday to pay $610,000 to settle two lawsuits over secret photos taken on school-issued laptops. The Lower Merion School District admitted it captured thousands of webcam photographs and screen shots from student laptops in a misguided effort to locate missing computers....

NEW BRUNSWICK — Two Rutgers University students have been charged with invasion of privacy for secretly placing a camera in another student’s dormitory room and transmitting a sexual encounter on the internet, Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan and Rutgers University Police Chief Rhonda Harris announced today. Dharun Ravi, 18, of Plainsboro and Molly W. Wei, 18, of Princeton have been charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy for allegedly using the camera to view and transmit a live image of an 18-year-old student in Piscataway on Sept. 19.

For the second time in two weeks, a man is suspected of taking cell phone photographs under women's dresses at a Northwest Side Wal-Mart. Martin Matthew Hemby, 20, was released from Bexar County Jail around 6 p.m. Wednesday after posting $5,000 bail. He faces one charge of improper photography. This is the second time San Antonio police have arrested Hemby on suspicion of taking improper photographs at a Wal-Mart Supercenter in the 1600 block of Vance Jackson Road — on July 23, Hemby was arrested, then released the next day after posting $10,000 bail. Hemby's most recent arrest is related...

OGDEN, Iowa – A former Ogden teacher who pleaded guilty to making secret videos of girls in a locker room has been volunteering for his old district. Thomas Perdue had been a teacher and coach in Ogden for 20 years when videotapes of girls and women undressing at the locker room were found at his house in 1995. He pleaded guilty to several counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and served six months in prison... Ogden Superintendent Bill Roederer says Perdue volunteered as an announcer at a school track meet in May. He says officials didn’t feel that anyone...

LAVERGNE, Tenn. — Police in La Vergne have charged a plumber with illegally taking video of a customer in the nude. . . . Investigators said Brennan switched on a camera in his tool kit and told the customer she needed to take a shower so he could find the source of the leak.

It's the fear of many air travelers: Step into full-body scanning machines and Transportation Security Administration officers might get an eyeful of their private parts. That is apparently what has been happening on a regular basis — at least during TSA training sessions — and earlier this week it led one Miami International Airport transportation security officer to allegedly attack a co-worker with a baton. The co-worker had been making fun of the size of the officer's genitals, according to Miami-Dade police.

The system that Lower Merion school officials used to track lost and stolen laptops wound up secretly capturing thousands of images, including photographs of students in their homes, Web sites they visited, and excerpts of their online chats, says a new motion filed in a suit against the district. More than once, the motion asserts, the camera on Robbins' school-issued laptop took photos of Robbins as he slept in his bed. Each time, it fired the images off to network servers at the school district. Back at district offices, the Robbins motion says, employees with access to the images marveled...

INDIANA (KDKA/AP) An Indiana County man was sentenced to serve jail time for recording men on a cell phone while they were using the restroom. According to an Associated Press report, Christopher Marsh, 31, of Blairsville, recorded men on 42 occasions from September to November 2008. The incidents took place at restrooms in Wal-Mart stores in Unity Township and Burrell Township and on the campus of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He was arrested after a Wal-Mart employee noticed that Marsh had spent more than 3 ½ hours in the restroom.

Erin Andrews is an ESPN reporter. Some sick person planted hidden cameras in her hotel room and splashed video of her while she was dressing all over the Internet.

One of America's leading female sports writers has insinuated that Erin Andrews may have been partially responsible for cultivating a "frat house" fan base that led to a Peeping Tom video taping her in the nude and posting the video on the Internet. "If you trade off your sex appeal, if you trade off your looks, eventually you're going to lose those," USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan said Wednesday on the sports radio show 850 "The Buzz." "She doesn't deserve what happened to her, but part of the shtick, seems to me, is being a little bit out there...

MAPLE -- A comic book store owner is accused of voyeurism after police say he was caught using a hidden camera to spy on a woman in the store's washroom. Officers were called to Dragon's Realm in the Norwood Plaza at 9661 Jane St., just south of Major Mackenzie Dr., around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday after the young woman's boyfriend found a video camera, York police alleged. "Nobody should ever be subjected to something like this," Const. Laurie Perks said yesterday. The young couple, both 21, went to the store to pick up some comics they had ordered, Perks said. While...

...The problems began last fall when [principal David] Davis, who did not return phone messages from The Associated Press, admonished the senior, who is identified only as "Jane Doe" in court records and whose friends say she doesn't want to talk about the experience. The friends donned gay pride T-shirts and rainbow-colored clothing when they found out how Davis had treated her, and he questioned many of them about their sexuality and association with gay students. Some were suspended. "Davis embarked on what can only be characterized as a 'witch hunt' to identify students who were homosexual and their supporters,...

OKLAHOMA CITY — A man accused of using a camera to take pictures under the skirt of an unsuspecting 16-year-old girl at a Tulsa store did not commit a crime, a state appeals court has ruled. The state Court of Criminal Appeals voted 4-1 in favor of Riccardo Gino Ferrante, who was arrested in 2006 for situating a camera underneath the girl's skirt at a Target store and taking photographs. Ferrante, now 34, was charged under a "Peeping Tom" statute that requires the victim to be "in a place where there is a right to a reasonable expectation of privacy."...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) – "I was in bed laying with my girl (and) I heard something rumbling underneath my bed. I thought it was my dog." What Jeremy Lynn heard was not a dog, but from a peeping tom who had broken in hoping to see his girlfriend naked. "(When) I looked underneath there, I saw these eyes staring back at me. I was like 'what the crap! This ain't normal,'" said Lynn. "So I start(ed) slinging him around. I was upper cutting him, beating him left and right." Police said after they arrested Donei Zabedra-Ilario, 20, he confessed to...

Davenport, Iowa - Desperate to reach voters in Iowa, an embarrassed Ron Paul today admitted looking in a Davenport woman's bathroom window, apologizing for the incident later in the day. "We were going door to door and not finding many people at home, though their cars were there and televisions all seemed to be on," began Paul. "I guess I just got a little frustrated and went too far. I heard this beautiful voice singing and went see if I could find it. (Sheepishly) Well I found her and..you know the rest."

A MAN recently released from jail in California after being convicted of secretly videotaping a woman and a teenage girl has sued a Marin County police department for the return of a large porn collection taken during the investigation. Dennis Saunders, 59, filed suit against San Rafael police in Marin County Superior Court after the department refused to give back some 500 pornographic movies and 250 magazines his lawyer described as unrelated to the peeping case. “There's absolutely no legal foundation for them withholding perfectly legal adult-oriented material,” lawyer Jon Rankin told the Marin Independent Journal. The video collection alone...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A group of campers tied a peeping Tom suspect to a tree, keeping him bound until police arrived. Richard H. Berkey, 63, was charged with private indecency, a misdemeanor, by sheriff's deputies who were called to the Big Fan Campground near Bagby Hot Springs last weekend, according to Clackamas County Detective Jim Strovink. Campers told deputies they recognized Berkey from a similar incident at the campground last year and wanted to make sure he didn't get away. The 2006 incident was reported to police but did not result in charges. "Last year, we took down his...

Peeping Toms beware. You could soon face harsh punishment for looking up a woman's skirt or spying through holes in bathroom and dressing room walls. Sometimes a look is just a look. Sometimes, it's not. Just ask the women of New York City. "I would feel violated," Queens resident Amy Dannenmueller said. Topacia Petraglia of Queens agreed. "No one wants to be observed when in your natural being walking around," Petraglia said. Added Coleen Lloyd, also of Queens: "It makes you uncomfortable, but people do gross things." "Anyone's trying to look up my skirt, I want it prevented," Erin Downhour...

Campers tie up man accused of peeping at women Campers tied this man to a tree after they believe they caught him peeping at women going to the bathroom at a campsite near Estacada over the weekend.     Story Published: Aug 22, 2007 at 12:36 PM PDT Story Updated: Aug 22, 2007 at 6:10 PM PDT By KATU Web Staff   ESTACADA, Ore. - A group of campers over the weekend caught a man they say was watching women go to the bathroom in the woods - a man who allegedly told them he had been doing similar...