Florida barista hid digital camera in toilet to look at ‘attractive’ males: cops

An employee at an ironically-named Florida espresso retailer admitted to hiding his mobile phone beneath the sink throughout the toilet so he might report footage of 10 males he “found attractive,” police said.

Spyridon Voulgarakis was arrested Saturday after a patron at “We Spy Coffee & More” in Tarpon Springs, Florida, realized a digital camera was positioned beneath the sink throughout the males’s room and had been recording him, the native police division said Monday.

The sufferer confronted Voulgarakis – a enterprise companion and employee on the espresso retailer – and referred to as authorities, the Tarpon Springs Police Department said.

The purchaser suggested police he observed “a phone under the sink, facing the toilet recording,” based mostly on an arrest affidavit posted on-line by Law & Crime.

The man may even see that the gadget had recorded him whereas he was using the bathroom, and later handed over the mobile phone to police, the affidavit states.

“I reviewed the video and I observed that [Voulgarakis] surreptitiously recorded the victim in a private bathroom which captured his genitals for the purpose of self-gratification,” the reserving officer wrote throughout the affidavit.

A spokesperson for the espresso retailer didn’t reply to a message looking for comment Tuesday.

Voulgarakis, 31, allegedly admitted to police that he did place his phone “under the sink, to record men he found attractive.”

He said he knew what he had been doing was illegal nevertheless went on to inform officers he had secretly taken video of 10 people, the affidavit states. It was not immediately clear if the ten people included the sufferer who notified police.

Voulgarakis was charged with battery and video voyeurism, police said. He didn’t reply to a message looking for contact upon Tuesday morning.