TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) - A Tallahassee man is out on bond after he was caught using his cellphone to take videos up the skirt of an unsuspecting female shopper inside a local store.
Rommel Aranas, 41, was arrested on Saturday for the act.
That day, around 3 p.m., Tallahassee Police officers were called to an indecency complaint at the Marshalls Department store on Governor's Square Boulevard, according to arrest documents.
When officers arrived and spoke with the store manager who confirmed that hid staff had spotted the man taking pictures up a woman's skirt, only to later follow her out of the store. The manager advised the man had walked next door to Michaels.
Arrest documents say that when officers went over there, they found a man matching the witnesses' descriptions and went to speak with him.
The man, who identified himself as Aranas, was "courteous and polite" while speaking with officers and denied any knowledge of the accusations. Aranas' cellphone was visible while the officers spoke with him, so they asked if they could take a look at it.
Aranas agreed, according to court documents, and at first, officers didn't find anything suspicious. However, as the officers kept looking through the phone, they found a video depicting Aranas angling his camera to look up a woman's skirt.
Documents say that as Aranas realized what officers had found, he lowed his head, acknowledged what officers had seen, and "muttered something that sounded like an apology."
After being detained, investigators learned that Aranas may have made similar recording at the Michaels store and the Five Below store as well.
Based on the evidence, Aranas was charged with video voyerism and his cellphone was impounded as evidence. He got out on a $1,000 bond the same day.
