Central KY man placed camera in child’s bathroom in neighboring apartment, police say
A Clark County man has been charged with video voyeurism after police say he drilled a hole in his floor and placed a borescope in the bathroom of a child who lived in the apartment below him.
A man who lives on Central Avenue in Winchester told police the tenant who lives in the apartment above his had been drilling holes into the ceiling of his 13-year-old daughter’s bedroom, her bathroom “and a bathroom used by other women of the house,” a detective with the Winchester Police Department wrote in an affidavit for a search warrant filed in Clark District Court.
On Sunday, the man told police he went into his daughter’s bathroom and found “a pile of drywall dust and debris on the floor,” then “looked up and saw the borescope coming down from the ceiling.”
He told police he grabbed the camera and tried to pull it down, while someone in the apartment upstairs tried to pull it back up through the ceiling. The man who found the borescope was able to pull the camera down and gave it to police when they arrived.
He told officers that he had previously sealed “an entry point” in the ceiling with expanding foam and drywall, according to the affidavit.
The tenant who lived upstairs, Benny Vires, 50, told a detective he put the camera in the floor but “when he recorded, he didn’t see anyone,” according to a police uniform citation.
During a search of Vires’ apartment, police said they seized the box the borescope came in, tools and two cell phones that belonged to him.
Vires was arrested Sunday and taken to the Clark County Detention Center. He is also facing a charge of resisting arrest.
Bond was set at $7,500.
