(KRON) — A Santa Rosa restaurant supervisor has been arrested for allegedly recording patrons within the girls’s restroom secretly. In keeping with the Santa Rosa Police Division, officers have been dispatched on Monday to the Ohana Hawaiian BBQ at 2150 Santa Rosa Avenue to analyze a report of a cellphone hidden within the girls’s restroom.
A lady, who police stated made a behavior of checking vents in public restrooms for hidden recording units, examined the air vent within the single-user restroom. She noticed what seemed to be a cellphone hidden within the vent with the digicam dealing with the restroom’s inside.
The girl contacted Santa Rosa PD, notified the restaurant supervisor after which guarded the lavatory till police arrived. Arriving on the restaurant, officers eliminated the vent cowl and recovered the telephone, which had been recording for round 46 minutes.
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Officers decided that the telephone belonged to the restaurant supervisor, 37-year-old Daniel Nam of Santa Rosa. Detectives with the Santa Rosa PD Home Violence Sexual Assault Staff (DVSA) responded and took over the investigation.
A preliminary investigation revealed that Nam used a hid recording gadget to invade the privateness of at the least one sufferer. Detectives seized his cellphone and laptop computer and shall be reviewing the contents of the units to find out how lengthy he had been recording individuals in secret and to determine extra victims.
Nam was booked into Sonoma County Jail. The officer reserving him into jail requested a bail enhancement of $200,000, which police stated a superior courtroom choose accepted.
Police say that whereas they do not have a timeline for a way lengthy Nam had been secretly recording individuals, they consider it might have been occurring for a number of months. Anybody with data relating to the case, or who believes they might have been a sufferer, is requested to contact Santa Rosa PD.
Extra prices could also be filed towards Nam as extra proof is found and victims are recognized.
