Results tagged “unlawfulsurveillance”

Ugh: The Post reports that a "tech-savvy skirt-chaser fitted his boots with cameras and victimized women as they walked through Union Square Park, cops said yesterday... He was carrying a viewer, which was connected by wires through his pockets to tiny cameras lodged in the tongues of his boots, cops said." Eric Pierson was charged with unlawful surveillance last week and found with "recordings showing the legs and underwear of another eight victims." Speaking of, doesn't the iPod Nano with video capability seem like it might encourage this kind of behavior?

Yikes: Newsday reports that two Hofstra students found spy cameras hidden in smoke detectors in their Franklin Square apartment. The tenants had asked a friend to check the detectors, which were found to be non-working. "The friend brought one of the detectors to a local firehouse, where a volunteer firefighter realized 'the guts were removed from that smoke detector and in its place was a digital video camera and some sort of a transmitter.'" Nassau police arrested the landlord Michael Murartore, who claimed he just wanted to make sure his apartment wasn't being damaged, but the cops told Newsday, "It's against the law to do that. It's kind of obvious."

Newsday reports that Robert Infantino, who calls himself "Long Island's Favorite Magician, was arrested for allegedly "secretly videotaping" a woman and her two daughters "during a 'free photo shoot' at his home." Oh no, not the "free photo shoot" scam! Infantino's other business, Infantino Productions offers "Family Photography, Modeling, Headshots, and more" and adds "If you'd like a FREE photo shoot...contact me and we'll go over the details of what you're interested in doing (family, fashion, headshots, glamour, etc)." Apparently the woman and her girls, ages 10 and 14, took him up on the offer but then noticed a "camera hidden in a box in a changing room" where they had been changing outfits. Newsday says he was charged with three counts of second-degree unlawful surveillance.

A man who concealed a video camera in a shopping bag to film women as they got onto an escalator at the Grand Central subway station was arested for unlawful surveillance.