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Police: Edgewater Supermarket Customers Tackle Professor Taking 'Upskirt' Pic Of Underage Girl Police: Edgewater Supermarket Customers Tackle Professor Taking 'Upskirt' Pic Of Underage Girl
Police: Edgewater Supermarket Customers Tackle Professor Taking 'Upskirt' Pic Of Underage Girl A former adjunct professor was tackled by customers who caught him taking an "upskirt" photo of an underage girl on a Edgewater supermarket checkout line, authorities said. Responding officers found several good Samaritans holding down David M. Chapinski, 41, of Somerset at the Mitsuawa Market on River Road around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Detective Sgt. Teddy Wetklow said. Detectives interviewed witnesses and obtained surveillance footage that shows Chapinski on the checkout line "with absolutely no groceries," Wetklow said. "It appears he was on the line strictly to take the upskirt photo of th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
PD: Delaware Man Charged For Placing Hidden Camera Pen In King Of Prussia Mall Dressing Rooms PD: Delaware Man Charged For Placing Hidden Camera Pen In King Of Prussia Mall Dressing Rooms
PD: Delaware Man Charged For Placing Hidden Camera Pen In King Of Prussia Mall Dressing Rooms A Delaware man was hit with multiple charges after police found he was responsible for placing pens equipped with a hidden camera in multiple dressing rooms inside the King of Prussia Mall. Upper Merion officers were dispatched on July 3 to the mall's Hollister store where a 14-year-old girl found the suspicious pen after she had already tried on clothes, 6abc reports. The girl turned the pen over to store management who then contacted Upper Merion police, authorities said. Officers identified Joseph Stevenson, 26, of Smyrna, Delaware as the culprit after he asked a store employe…

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by Nicole Acosta
Police & Fire
Camera Pens Allegedly Hidden In PA Fitting Rooms By Delaware Man Free On $10K Bail, Police Say Camera Pens Allegedly Hidden In PA Fitting Rooms By Delaware Man Free On $10K Bail, Police Say
Camera Pens Allegedly Hidden In PA Fitting Rooms By Delaware Man Free On $10K Bail, Police Say At least eight women, and one man, were secretly video-recorded inside two popular Pennsylvania store dressing rooms earlier this month, authorities said. Two tiny, hidden devices were recovered from the fitting rooms of stores at King of Prussia Mall in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, according to Upper Merion Township police. Initially, police said a 14-year-old girl found a tiny pen with a covert camera inside a fitting room at Hollister's store. Victims were filmed undressing, police said.  The pen was in plain sight, police said, but the girl allegedly noticed a tiny video-screen…

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by Jon Craig
Police & Fire
Philly Sex Offender Pens Google Reviews Of Revealing Photos He Snapped Of Women, Police Say Philly Sex Offender Pens Google Reviews Of Revealing Photos He Snapped Of Women, Police Say
Philly Sex Offender Pens Google Reviews Of Revealing Photos He Snapped Of Women, Police Say A registered sex offender from Philadelphia took hundreds of revealing photos of women at area businesses, then uploaded them to Google maps -- penning Google review for many of them, as first reported by NorthPennNow. James Dirk Roberts, 55, is facing 11 misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy following the 10-month investigation launched last July by Montgomery Township Police Department. An investigation was launched last July after police were tipped off to reports of a man taking photos of a female employee at an area business, the criminal complaint says. The woman was pa…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Police: PA Man Accused Of Sexually Abusing Girls 8, 10 Says He Was Possessed By Devil Police: PA Man Accused Of Sexually Abusing Girls 8, 10 Says He Was Possessed By Devil
Police: PA Man Accused Of Sexually Abusing Girls 8, 10 Says He Was Possessed By Devil A Telford man who told authorities he was possessed by the devil was slapped with various assault and abuse charges Tuesday after police say he sexually abused two girls ages 8 and 10, and took upskirt photos of a 16-year-old girl, as first reported by NorthPennNow. Allen Kraus, 39, was identified by police when they received a report from Bucks County Children and Youth on April 12 regarding inappropriate photos found on his phone, the criminal complaint says. An ensuing investigation found he took upskirt photos of a 10-year-old girl and also had "indecent contact" with an 8-year-old girl…

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by Nicole Acosta
Police & Fire
Police: Chester County Auto Mechanic Recorded Female Co-Workers In Berks Dealership Bathroom Police: Chester County Auto Mechanic Recorded Female Co-Workers In Berks Dealership Bathroom
Police: Chester County Auto Mechanic Recorded Female Co-Workers In Berks Dealership Bathroom A former Berks County auto mechanic was charged after his female co-workers noticed they were being recorded in the dealership bathroom, WFMZ-TV 69 News reports. Jason Vander Duim, 37, of Phoenixville, Chester County, admitted to putting a camera in the women's bathroom at Volkswagen Reading in Bern Township, police told the news outlet. Duim threw the camera away after two victims realized what was happening, according to court documents obtained by the outlet. The camera that Durim used apparently was connected to a home surveillance app on his phone. He is now facing invasion of p…

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by Nicole Acosta
Police & Fire
Central Jersey EMT Accused Of Secretly Recording People In Bathrooms For Years Central Jersey EMT Accused Of Secretly Recording People In Bathrooms For Years
Central Jersey EMT Accused Of Secretly Recording People In Bathrooms For Years A 31-year-old Hunterdon County EMT was accused Wednesday of secretly recording multiple people in rescue squad bathrooms without their knowledge or consent for years. Douglas Gimson, 31, of Hampton, was arrested Dec. 3 on invasion of privacy charges, Acting Hunterdon County Prosecutor Michael J. Williams said alongside two local law enforcement agencies. Grismon, a member of both the Flemington-Raritan and Lambertville-New Hope rescue squads, recorded the individuals in the bathrooms of the squads' facilities, a spokesperson for the Hunterdon County Prosecutor's Office said. The …

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by Cecilia Levine