CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Court documents showed a major break in a disturbing case involving a secret camera in a men's urinal.
It happened back in May at a business in the Belmont neighborhood in north Charlotte. Police recently charged a suspect with the crime, records showed.
The suspect is an employee of the business, according to the search warrant. Police said after being questioned, he admitted to putting a camera in the urinal.
"There was a camera attached to the back of the urinal,” the business owner said. “ It was just a black box that had a wire attached to it.”
The incident is among a series of crimes using cameras to secretly record unknowing victims. That includes a Wake County man charged with secret peeping; he was accused of installing a mini spy camera in a women’s room.
Experts said cameras are getting much smaller and therefore easier to hide.
“We’ve seen them grow from huge boxes for cameras, down to the size of a match head,” an expert previously said.
Court documents showed the employee at the north Charlotte business was charged, but the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) said he has not been arrested yet.
