Man accused of putting hidden camera in washroom of Toronto business
Posted May 14, 2018 8:35 am.
Last Updated May 14, 2018 8:37 am.
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Toronto police have released a security image of a man wanted in connection to a voyeurism investigation that saw a hidden camera placed in the washroom of a Scarborough business.
Police say the suspect entered the establishment’s washroom on Wednesday and affixed a false wall socket that contained a hidden camera.
Police say it’s too early to connect the Scarborough investigation with a similar case in Toronto’s financial district, where someone also placed a phony light socket with a hidden camera in a Starbucks washroom.
The Toronto police technical division is currently trying to determine if the devices used in both washrooms are the same.
In the Starbucks case, a customer told the store’s manager there was a camera in the electrical outlet in one of the unisex washrooms nearly two weeks ago.
Officers went to the store the next day and collected the camera.
A Starbucks employee posted a screenshot online (below) of a message from a Starbucks managers’ chat group that acknowledges a recording device was found in the washroom.
The employee told CityNews they posted the message after becoming “concerned” by the company’s failure to notify the public.