A former maintenance worker at a Greenville apartment complex has been charged with videotaping residents using a tanning bed.
Tommy Peaden is charged with 85 felony counts of secret peeping by obtaining video images without permission and another 85 counts of secret peeping by possession of those images.
Police have been overwhelmed with phone calls from potential victims since making public the discovery of a camera inside the apartment's club house. The camera was found in the attic crawl space and one videotape was recovered.
Investigators says the 85 charges are based on the number of separate pictures recovered, not the number of victims.
Peaden is in jail on a $50,000 secured bond.
Residents React
Some residents in a Greenville apartment complex are expressing feelings of shock and disgust after police say an apartment maintenance worker secretly videotaped residents as the used the complex's tanning bed facility.
Police say the secret peeping happened inside the clubhouse of the Treybrooke Apartment complex on Fifth street. According to authorities, the worker installed a camera inside a crawl space of the clubhouse and videotaped residents as they used the tanning beds between the dates of April 21 and April 29 of this year. Police say the worker was identified and swiftly terminated by Treybrooke Apartments. We spoke with apartment residents who say they are shocked by the allegations.
Police say the investigation is on-going, and multiple charges are expected to be filed in the near future. No other suspects are believed to be involved. Anyone who is believed to be a victim in this case is urged to contact the Greenville Police Department.
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There's another case of secret peeping under investigation by Greenville police.
Police say they found a video camera hidden in the attic crawl space of the clubhouse at Treybrooke Apartments.
One videotape was recovered, and contains images of people using the tanning bed between April 21th and April 29th. Police says a maintenance worker employed by the complex has been identified as a suspect, but so far no one has been charged. That employee no longer works at the apartment complex.
Treybrooke management has agreed to contact potential victims from sign-in logs to the tanning beds. People who used the tanning beds at Treybrooke can call Greenville police at 252-329-4136.
Police say multiple charges are expected to be filed in this case in the near future.
In March, a former Old Navy employee was arrested after police say he was taking photographs of women when they were in the store's dressing rooms.