Man arrested, accused of hiding in ceiling to {photograph} girls’s faculty soccer workforce, police say

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WILMINGTON, Ohio (WXIX) – A person is dealing with almost a dozen prison expenses after Wilmington police say he hid within the ceiling to {photograph} members of the Wilmington College girls’s soccer workforce whereas they modified of their locker room.

Wilmington police had been known as to the Scheve Athletic Center at Wilmington College round 9:40 p.m. Tuesday, after a soccer participant noticed somebody within the ceiling of the ladies’s locker room.

Campus security officers detained the suspect, later recognized as Jayson Barker, of Jeffersonville, Ohio, till police arrived.

According to an affidavit filed in Clinton County Municipal Court, faculty safety advised police that 11 ladies had been altering within the locker room after they noticed somebody holding a telephone emerge from the ceiling, adopted by a flash that advised a photograph or video was being taken.

Barker was a custodian who was employed by a third-party vendor, Scioto, in keeping with Randall Sarvis, the school’s affiliate vice chairman of communications and public relations.

The affidavit says Barker claims that he was above the drop ceiling studying the Bible on his telephone and didn’t take any footage. It goes on to say that Barker acknowledged he generally goes up there to learn on his telephone after which turns it off earlier than going again to work, which was turned off earlier than police arrived.

In addition, the affidavit says that the telephone was then confiscated for proof simply earlier than they arrived on the jail.

While en path to the jail, Barker acknowledged that he had an unloaded shotgun in his automobile, which was parked on the faculty, the affidavit stated.

He is dealing with 11 counts of voyeurism, police stated.

Barker was booked into the Clinton County Jail on a $22,000 money or surety bond, however has since posted bail, courtroom information present. His subsequent courtroom look is ready for Oct. 5 at 2 p.m. in Clinton County Municipal Court.

Wilmington police stated the investigation stays energetic and detectives are reviewing proof to find out whether or not Barker might face extra expenses.

Sarvis says Wilmington College severed ties Wednesday with Scioto.

The faculty is offering counseling providers to the affected college students, Sarvis stated.

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