A 31-year-old service worker at a food service warehouse near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is facing four counts of first-degree voyeurism after investigators say he hid two cameras inside a bathroom clock, one of which recorded footage of him personally installing the device. Binh Quoc Hoang was arrested on a warrant in August and has since been released on bail while King County Superior Court proceedings move forward.
According to charges detailed by KOMO News, Hoang described himself to investigators as “a huge pervert” and told them, “I just like to do crazy sexual things.” He reportedly identified with the character Quagmire from the television series Family Guy, and told police that obtaining his own recordings was more exciting to him than watching other people's hidden-camera footage. Hoang admitted to placing the camera in the bathroom, though he offered investigators a different explanation for his motive, saying he wanted to identify who had been leaving a mess and adding, “I wanted to catch the person so I could tell the supervisor.”
The case began unraveling in April 2025, when an employee at the private food service warehouse at Sea-Tac found a hidden camera tucked inside a bathroom clock, according to the same KOMO report. The employee removed the clock from the wall, located a storage drive attached to it, and alerted warehouse managers, who in turn called police. Detectives with the Port of Seattle Police Department — the specialized agency with more than 100 commissioned officers holding primary jurisdiction over Sea-Tac Airport and port-owned properties, per its own agency history — later observed a small camera lens hidden in the “1” of the clock's number “10.”
Digital Evidence and a Trail Back to the Defendant
A warehouse manager connected the camera's storage drive to a computer and reviewed the footage, according to the report. The first video file on the device reportedly showed a person placing the clock in the bathroom, and the manager identified that person as Hoang. Court filings cite a Port of Seattle police detective who certified probable cause for at least 23 victims after reviewing 385 digital files recovered from the camera's SD card, according to a summary shared on Facebook by a source cited in court reporting on the case. Police estimated the cameras may have been used hundreds of times, and investigators separately determined the device had been operating continuously for months before it was finally taken down and examined.
Hoang is also said to have maintained significant catalogs of pornography that included hidden-camera videos, according to the KOMO account of the charges. He is charged with four counts of first-degree voyeurism in King County Superior Court.
How Washington Law Treats Hidden-Camera Cases
Under Washington's RCW 9A.44.115, first-degree voyeurism is a Class C felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine per count, as outlined by the Vindicate Criminal Law Group. The statute applies when someone intentionally films another person in a private space for sexual gratification without their consent. A conviction also legally classifies the offender as a sex offender, triggering mandatory registration on state registries along with post-release community custody supervision.
This is not the only recent King County case involving hidden cameras in commercial restrooms. In January, former Expedia Group employee Marcelo Vargas-Fernandez was sentenced in King County Superior Court to four years in prison and 12 months of community custody after pleading guilty to 14 felony counts of first-degree voyeurism for hiding cameras in restrooms on Expedia's Seattle campus in 2023 and 2024, according to KING 5. A search of his Lynnwood apartment in February 2024 turned up 15 hidden cameras, 22 SD cards, and six hard drives holding more than 20 terabytes of data, prosecutors said. Corporate security staff had initially left the cameras in place after mistaking them for soap dispenser battery backups or music players, per HeraldNet, and only re-inspected the restrooms weeks later before calling police. In both the Sea-Tac and Expedia cases, it was victims who first noticed the cameras and alerted supervisors, rather than routine facility inspections catching the devices.
Hoodline previously reported on another King County prosecution in January, after a hidden camera was discovered inside a public restroom at a Starbucks in Kirkland's Juanita neighborhood, in a case that led to felony voyeurism charges and the recovery of multiple electronic devices. Together with the Expedia sentencing and the Sea-Tac warehouse case, it reflects a recurring pattern in King County of hidden devices going undetected in commercial and workplace restrooms for extended stretches before anyone alerts police.
