Florida police say employees hid phones under bathroom sinks to record coffee shop customers

A coffee shop employee hid a cellphone under the store’s bathroom sink to secretly record customers using the restroom, Florida police said.

According to an arrest affidavit signed by Tarpon Springs police and provided to McClatchy News by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, a man found the phone recording him in the bathroom of a Tarpon Springs coffee shop just after 5:30 p.m. on March 11. The phone was under the sink facing the toilet.

The man took the phone and confronted the store owners with it, the affidavit said.

WFLA identified the man Charged with setting up the phone As an employee of the coffee shop We the Spy Coffee & More.

A message left March 13 with McClatchy News at We Spy Coffee & More was not returned.

According to the affidavit, the 31-year-old employee told the man to delete the video and grabbed him by the shirt in an attempt to take the phone.

When deputies arrived, the employee told them she had left her phone in the bathroom “to record attractive men,” the affidavit states. He told them he recorded at least 10 people in the bathroom, according to police.

Authorities arrested him on March 11 just after 6:40 p.m., the affidavit said. He faces one count of video voyeurism and one count of simple battery, and his bond was set at $5,500, according to police. .

Tarpon Springs Police Detective Md Ask those who have visited According to Fox 13 News, We Spy Coffee & More and using the men’s bathroom after February 13 called them at 727-938-2849.

Tarpon Springs is located about 30 miles northwest of Tampa.

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