An 18-year-old housekeeper at a Raleigh apartment complex is facing a felony charge after a woman says she found his phone hidden beneath a women's restroom stall, recording. Raleigh police have charged Emerson Morales-Roblero with felony secret peeping following the alleged incident at the 400H apartment complex.
According to WRAL, arrest warrants state that Morales-Roblero placed his phone under a woman's restroom stall and left it there recording. A woman reportedly discovered the device while attempting to use the restroom, and she recognized him as a member of the building's housekeeping staff.
Police confiscated Morales-Roblero's phone, the station's report notes. He has since been charged with felony secret peeping in connection with the allegation that he placed the phone to record women inside the restroom.
How North Carolina Classifies the Charge
North Carolina law assigns Class I felony penalties to some secret-peeping violations, Class H felony penalties for dissemination under subsection (h), and misdemeanor penalties for other conduct under state law.
Other Recent Secret Peeping Cases in the Triangle
This is not the only secret peeping case to surface in the Raleigh area recently. In a separate incident, police arrested 27-year-old Sergio Aguilar-Mendoza after he was accused of recording a woman in a bathroom stall at a Walmart on New Bern Avenue, per the same outlet's report. Aguilar-Mendoza faced felony secret peeping and misdemeanor indecent exposure charges and was held on a $250,000 secured bond.
Another case involved 44-year-old Kevin McDonald Henderson, who faced two felony secret-peeping counts in Wake County and one in Durham County. Warrants in that case alleged he took pictures of women on his cell phone inside two stores near Triangle Town Center as well as at the New Nearly New Thrift Store on Hillsborough Road in Durham, the report states. The other cases involve allegations against Aguilar-Mendoza and Henderson.
