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Prosecutors have filed criminal charges against an electrician who allegedly installed hidden cameras in the bathrooms of at least two homes where he was hired to perform electrical work.
Sheriff's deputies believe **************, 34, of Rancho Cucamonga, may have victimized several other people, because a search of his home yielded video footage of unidentified women in bathrooms.
he was arrested last week and charged with two felony counts of burglary and two misdemeanor "peeping Tom" charges.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges in West Valley Superior Court on Friday and remains in custody at West Valley Detention Center in lieu of $285,000 bail. He is scheduled to appear in court Friday.
Evidence of him secretly viewing or recording video footage first surfaced on Aug.7 in a home in the 6400 block of Cambridge Avenue in Rancho Cucamonga, according to a police report attached to his court file.
he was doing electrical work at the home, which is owned by a general contractor who told police he had known him for five years and had hired him to do electrical work in about 80 percent of his jobs.
In the bathroom at the home, on the floor beside the toilet, he had left a power tool with a camera attached to it.
After he was confronted by residents and asked about the camera, he wrote a letter stating he had a camera attached to the power tool to enable him to lower the tool into walls and view footage from the camera as he was doing his work.
A woman who lives at the home contacted authorities on Sept. 9.
When deputies searched the home, they found an audio receiver and a video recorder in the attic. On the video recorder's hard drive, they found footage of a woman changing clothes in a bathroom.
Investigators showed the footage to the general contractor who owned the home, and he recognized the bathroom - it belonged to a friend who recently remodeled his home, and he had hired him to do the electrical work.
In the bathroom at the home, police found a small hidden camera on the bottom plate of an electrical socket, according to the police report.
he was arrested on Oct. 28, and in interviews with police admitted to installing hidden cameras to record women without their knowledge.
He also said that he had installed a hidden camera in his home to record the women who lived in the apartment adjacent to his.
When asked by the sheriff's detective why he did it, he replied, according to the report: "Because they were hot. It was an opportunity that I should have never considered, but I did it, and it's going to ruin my life."
At his home in the , investigators found bathroom video footage of other women, many of whom are still unidentified, according to the police report.
Sheriff's deputies believe **************, 34, of Rancho Cucamonga, may have victimized several other people, because a search of his home yielded video footage of unidentified women in bathrooms.
he was arrested last week and charged with two felony counts of burglary and two misdemeanor "peeping Tom" charges.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges in West Valley Superior Court on Friday and remains in custody at West Valley Detention Center in lieu of $285,000 bail. He is scheduled to appear in court Friday.
Evidence of him secretly viewing or recording video footage first surfaced on Aug.7 in a home in the 6400 block of Cambridge Avenue in Rancho Cucamonga, according to a police report attached to his court file.
he was doing electrical work at the home, which is owned by a general contractor who told police he had known him for five years and had hired him to do electrical work in about 80 percent of his jobs.
In the bathroom at the home, on the floor beside the toilet, he had left a power tool with a camera attached to it.
After he was confronted by residents and asked about the camera, he wrote a letter stating he had a camera attached to the power tool to enable him to lower the tool into walls and view footage from the camera as he was doing his work.
A woman who lives at the home contacted authorities on Sept. 9.
When deputies searched the home, they found an audio receiver and a video recorder in the attic. On the video recorder's hard drive, they found footage of a woman changing clothes in a bathroom.
Investigators showed the footage to the general contractor who owned the home, and he recognized the bathroom - it belonged to a friend who recently remodeled his home, and he had hired him to do the electrical work.
In the bathroom at the home, police found a small hidden camera on the bottom plate of an electrical socket, according to the police report.
he was arrested on Oct. 28, and in interviews with police admitted to installing hidden cameras to record women without their knowledge.
He also said that he had installed a hidden camera in his home to record the women who lived in the apartment adjacent to his.
When asked by the sheriff's detective why he did it, he replied, according to the report: "Because they were hot. It was an opportunity that I should have never considered, but I did it, and it's going to ruin my life."
At his home in the , investigators found bathroom video footage of other women, many of whom are still unidentified, according to the police report.
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