OLYMPIA, Wash. — Olympia police said a man caught secretly recording a woman and her daughter in a store dressing room may have been recording women for months.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Efrain Ramirez-Ventura hid his cellphone inside a shoe and used it to record a mother and her 12-year-old daughter as they tried on clothes.
Ramirez was arrested Friday after an employee at Forever 21 at the Capital Mall told police she spotted the phone inside the shoe under a partition and saw that it was recording. She alerted the woman and girl while another employee contacted Olympia police.
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After his arrest, Ramirez, 31, surrendered his phone to police who said they found over “80 separate videos dating back to October of this year, which were recorded from numerous dressing rooms.” According to court documents, “The videos recorded numerous different females undressing in the dressing rooms.”
Police said Ramirez changed his story about the videos several times before admitting he made the recordings, saying "he sometimes leaves the record on the phone and puts it on the ground just in case any hot ladies are there," and adding, "I'm a guy man, so this kind of stuff happens".
Ramirez appeared in court Monday and was ordered held on $3,500 bond on two counts of first-degree voyeurism.
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