Arizona cop secretly taped 21
women as they undressed at tanning salon: police
Jeffrey Streeter, 44, was arrested
after a 20-year-old woman saw a camera phone on a wall of a changing room,
police said. Authorities said they found 21 videos of women changing and
evidence that Streeter had tried to erase his phone's memory.
BY RACHELLE BLIDNER
MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFF'S
OFFICEGoodyear, Ariz., police officer Jeffrey Streeter was arrested Oct. 29 for
illegally taping women at a tanning salon, Avondale police said.
An Arizona police officer was
arrested for secretly recording more than 20 women on his phone while they
changed at a tanning salon, Avondale police said.
Jeffrey Streeter, a nine-year
veteran of the Goodyear Police Department, was charged with 21 counts of
surreptitious recording and one count of tampering with physical evidence.
A 20-year-old female customer
at Desert Escape Tanning Center noticed a camera phone on the top of a changing
room dividing wall as she undressed Oct. 15, according toazcentral.com.
Streeter, 44, was in the stall next to her, police said.
Streeter told authorities he
put his gun on top of the 8-foot wall, not a phone. But police said that was
improbable.
When investigators searched
Streeter's phone, they found video recordings of 21 women, police said. They
said they also found evidence the phone's memory card had been formatted to try
to erase its contents.
"He was reaching over on
some of the videos and attempting to record the females while they were
undressing or getting dressed," Sgt. Mathew Hintz toldKPHO. "There
were also some videos where he was recording through the partition door."
The recordings were most likely
taped over a time frame of one to three months at the same salon, Hintz told
the Daily News.
Streeter was arrested Oct. 29
and has been placed on administrative leave pending the result of an
administrative investigation, Goodyear Police Chief Jerry Geier said.
"This is not the type of
behavior that we expect or tolerate from members of the Goodyear Police
Department," Geier said.
Tanning salon owner Tony
Gilbert said he was upset by what happened and planned to raise the height of
dividing walls.
