Saturday, January 6, 2018

Workplace Spycam Man Pleads Guilty

PA - A Douglass man faces court supervision after he admitted to invading the privacy of a female co-worker by planting a camera under her desk and recording her at their Montgomery Township workplace.

Anthony Joseph DePaul, 35, of the 100 block of Chalet Road, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to four years’ probation after he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of invasion of privacy in connection with the incidents...

Lens on a typical key-fob spy camera.
The device was attached to the bottom of her desk with Velcro and was pointed in the direction of her chair,” Montgomery Township Police Officer James T. Matlack alleged in the criminal complaint...

The device, which was provided to police, was small with a lens at one end, court documents indicate...several employees stated they had observed DePaul near the desk of the female victim in the weeks leading up to the discovery of the camera...

When detectives interviewed DePaul about the matter he admitted to placing the camera under the woman’s desk four to five times and to recording the victim as she sat at her desk, according to the criminal complaint. more