Firefighter arrange cameras to spy on feminine roommate: authorities

A Florida firefighter has been arrested for allegedly organising secret cameras inside air vents to look at his feminine roommate in her bed room and loo, in line with studies.

Steven Brandenberger, 38, who labored for the Orange County Fireplace Rescue and installs dwelling theaters on the facet, was busted Monday on prices of eavesdropping, unlawful interception of oral communication and intercourse offense video voyeurism of a sufferer over 19 years of age, Click Orlando reported.

The sufferer had paid lease to dwell in Brandenberg’s dwelling since 2013, in line with a report obtained by the outlet.

She contacted the police after her good friend requested to make use of her lavatory and located a digicam in an air vent there, the outlet reported. By the point the sufferer went to examine the digicam, it had already been eliminated — however she discovered a drilled gap with a number of wires pushed into it, resulting in the attic, authorities mentioned.

She additionally found a microphone and a small digicam that she disconnected and handed over to authorities for proof, the native station reported.

Then the lady proceeded to examine an air vent in her lavatory and located one other small digicam, which she lined in duct tape and waited till Brandenberger left for work to take away it, in line with the station.

The sufferer instructed Brandenberger a number of occasions she felt like she was being watched and requested him if her room was bugged, which she mentioned he denied, in line with the report. The alleged sufferer additionally mentioned there have been occasions when Brandenberger knew particulars of intimate conversations she had in her bed room.

She was particularly involved as a result of her 3- and 14-year-old nieces had stayed along with her prior to now — showering and altering within the lavatory and sleeping in her room, the outlet reported.

The girl started packing her issues to go away the home when Brandenberger and his mother — the house owner — confronted her, The Orlando Sentinel reported.

She instructed them she’d discovered the cameras — to which Brandenberger brushed them off as “simply sensors,” Deputy Kimberly Moore wrote in an affidavit obtained by the outlet.

His mom “believes the cameras had been wired into the house’s safety system that [Brandenberger] screens, because the cords went as much as the attic,” Moore wrote.

Brandenberger has labored for Orange County Fireplace Rescue since July 2006, the company instructed the paper.

Spokeswoman Carrie Proudfit instructed the outlet the costs “are in direct distinction to the core mission and values of the Orange County Fireplace Rescue Division.”

“[An] administrative listening to will probably be scheduled to overview the circumstances of his arrest and decide his rapid employment standing with the Division,” she mentioned.

In the meantime, Brandenberger is being held with out bail on the Seminole County Jail, the paper reported.

Bob Kealing, a public info officer with Seminole County Sheriff’s Workplace, told Newsweek the division is “additionally involved she will not be the one one victimized.”

“The investigation is open and we’re nonetheless going via proof we’ve gathered,” Keating mentioned.