Bainbridge Is. man charged with shooting upskirt videos in stores
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BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. - A 32-year-old man has been charged with felony voyeurism after he allegedly videotaped under the skirts of young women and teenage girls at two or more Bainbridge Island stores.
Angus Andrew Leger, 32, was arrested on Wednesday after police placed him under surveillance and watched his activities.
"He crouched down and put the cell phone under her dress, two or three times," said Det. Scott Weiss with the Bainbridge Island Police Department.
After his arrest, he admitted to making about 50 videos of "pretty, young females" for his own sexual pleasure, without the victims' knowledge, over the past six months, according to court records.
"Appeared to be truthful and forthright and kind of laid it all out there to get it out in the open, almost like he was glad to have been caught," Weiss said.
He also told police he had escalated his activities over the past three months and was actively seeking out young women to videotape, court documents say.
Police began surveillance of Leger after he was seen kneeling behind women with a cell phone camera aimed at their intimate areas on at least three separate occasions last month at the Bainbridge Island Safeway store, according to court records. At least two of those incidents were captured on the store's surveillance video.
Weiss says Leger went into buildings, including the Safeway, and secretly filmed women as they stood in line, some as young as 15.
"A grown man following, for the most part, younger females around," Weiss said..
Then on Wednesday, Bainbridge Island police observed Leger follow a high school-aged girl from the Safeway store to a nearby Rite-Aid store and take video of her private areas in the drug store, court records show.
After a brief struggle with officers, Leger was arrested and booked into Kitsap County jail. His cell phone camera was seized as evidence.
Leger remains in the Kitsap County jail Thursday on $250,000 bail.
Angus Andrew Leger, 32, was arrested on Wednesday after police placed him under surveillance and watched his activities.
"He crouched down and put the cell phone under her dress, two or three times," said Det. Scott Weiss with the Bainbridge Island Police Department.
After his arrest, he admitted to making about 50 videos of "pretty, young females" for his own sexual pleasure, without the victims' knowledge, over the past six months, according to court records.
"Appeared to be truthful and forthright and kind of laid it all out there to get it out in the open, almost like he was glad to have been caught," Weiss said.
He also told police he had escalated his activities over the past three months and was actively seeking out young women to videotape, court documents say.
Police began surveillance of Leger after he was seen kneeling behind women with a cell phone camera aimed at their intimate areas on at least three separate occasions last month at the Bainbridge Island Safeway store, according to court records. At least two of those incidents were captured on the store's surveillance video.
Weiss says Leger went into buildings, including the Safeway, and secretly filmed women as they stood in line, some as young as 15.
"A grown man following, for the most part, younger females around," Weiss said..
Then on Wednesday, Bainbridge Island police observed Leger follow a high school-aged girl from the Safeway store to a nearby Rite-Aid store and take video of her private areas in the drug store, court records show.
After a brief struggle with officers, Leger was arrested and booked into Kitsap County jail. His cell phone camera was seized as evidence.
Leger remains in the Kitsap County jail Thursday on $250,000 bail.
Ugh!
I would've thought it would occur to this loser that it is so much easier and more effecient to just look up porn on the internet rather than resort to this level. It's not hard! What a sick creep!
Really? I didn't realize that many women wore skirts anymore!
While I can't predict the future, I feel pretty confident that they've prevented a rape or molestation. Especially when he admitted to a pattern of escalation.
Hmm. But women going into men's rooms at concerts and sporting events, taking pictures and videos with their phones is just "harmless fun." Really have got to love the double standards.Â
@Lisa Good point.....neither is OK.Â
Way to go Angus. What is wrong with people?? Isn't there enough raunch out there on the internet and cable to keep ya satisfied?
This happened to me in college. Â That was pre-internet, thankfully. Â Even so, I assure you it's not the least bit funny when it happens. Â My then-boyfried, now husband, was there and confronted the guy - a middle-aged man in business attire carrying a briefcase. Â Library personnel were alerted and detained him, even looking through his briefcase (because that's where he stashed the specially-adapted mirror he was using), but found nothing so had to let him go. Â That sort of invasion of privacy -"small" though it may be -Â has the effect of making you feel extremely unsafe.
@belsnickles I think some see this as innocent perversion...but you said it perfectly. This is an invasion and makes one feel vulnerable and very non-trusting.
I've "shot" up a few skirts in my time...but to my knowledge it was always consensual...Sorry comedy is my was of trying to wrap my head around this kind of thing....15 and 17 year old children?...This guy needs an unsupervised visit from these girls fathers!!
Yep that was hilarious. Maybe you should do stand up.
@missyk Hecklers are not allowed!
Wht a perv.