POMPANO BEACH, Fla. – A Pompano Beach guy was once arrested previous this month through the Broward Sheriff’s Office on accusations that he put in hidden cameras within the males’s bogs at more than a few YouFit gyms across South Florida.
According to his arrest file, the investigation started on Sept. 12 when YouFit control referred to as BSO to file {that a} hidden digicam was once discovered fixed underneath the sink within the males’s handicap out there toilet stall at the YouFit at 4032 W. Hillsboro Blvd. in Deerfield Beach.
Detectives stated the regional supervisor for the gyms reported that any other digicam was once discovered within a drain quilt underneath a sink in the similar toilet stall, dealing with the bathroom.
According to the file, the regional supervisor directed all of his fitness center managers to go looking all of the women and men toilet stalls for any hidden cameras.
Hidden cameras had been then came upon throughout the males’s handicap toilet stalls at YouFit gyms in Boynton Beach and Davie, government stated.
According to the file, BSO detectives made touch with Boynton Beach police detectives who came upon {that a} guy through the identify of “Santiago Lopez” was once a fitness center member who had visited the other gyms the place the hidden cameras had been situated, in addition to a fitness center in Miami, inside a two-month length.
Detectives stated the SD card from a hidden digicam present in Deerfield Beach contained at least 50 movies of men who had been recorded with out their wisdom or consent.
At least two of the men looked to be youngsters, government stated.
According to the file, detectives later came upon that Lopez’s complete identify was once Bernardo Reyes Santiago Lopez.
They stated the 30-year-old was once captured on a hidden digicam from Deerfield Beach.
An arrest warrant was once ultimately issued for Lopez on Nov. 1 in Palm Beach County.
He was once taken into custody on Nov. 3 in Pompano Beach in reference to that warrant and confessed to putting in place cameras in different YouFit gyms, together with the only in Deerfield Beach, the file said.
Detectives stated they spoke with a number of sufferers from the Deerfield Beach fitness center on Nov. 7 who showed that they had been filmed with out their consent.
Charges had been then added for Lopez who was once already in custody at the BSO Main Jail.
He faces a couple of counts of video voyeurism and stays in prison on an out of county cling.
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