Blue Springs police looking to identity women who were secretly recorded, teen suspect in custody
BLUE SPRINGS, MO (KCTV) — Blue Springs law enforcement are conducting an invasion of privateness investigation that includes extra than a dozen victims. Detectives feel the same 17-12 months-outdated suspect is also associated in other lewd crimes from ladies in the Woods Chapel corridor.
The place has various benefit merchants, eating places and browsing options.
Police say the suspect secretly recorded females who utilized the restroom at a QuikTrip close to in the location in close proximity to Woods Chapel Highway and I-70. They are nonetheless attempting to establish seven women of all ages who ended up unknowingly recorded at that spot.
The investigation started when an alert neighborhood member discovered the suspect performing suspiciously. They identified as law enforcement who took the suspect into custody. Police searched the 17-12 months-old suspect’s mobile cell phone. “We were being ready to get well pictures from a cell cell phone where by he recorded them working with the restroom,” Blue Springs Law enforcement Department Sgt. Keegan Hughes explained. “This is a incredibly personal offer we want to cope with this with treatment.”
Sgt. Hughes claims the video reveals the ladies have been unknowingly recorded from up earlier mentioned as they utilised the restroom. “We have 18 victims that we know of but every time we change around a new stone, we locate extra victims,” Hughes claimed. Law enforcement applied QuikTrip surveillance to discover all but seven of the girls who ended up recorded working with the restroom.
They reviewed other comparable lewd unsolved crimes in the location. Investigators say surveillance movie and witness interviews served them find a sample. “Adult females’ privacy was invaded, or a deviant sexual act could have been fully commited behind them devoid of their knowledge,” Hughes reported.
Investigators say they observed evidence the suspect committed lewd crimes involving March and April of this 12 months at organizations in the Woods Chapel corridor in involving I-70 and Valley Perspective Road. “We believe there are victims out there that really do not know they are victims,” Hughes reported.
Law enforcement are asking gals who used the restroom at the QuikTrip off Woods Chapel Road on March 25th in the afternoon hrs to call Detective Kate Tipton at 816-622-4196.
The 17-yr-aged suspect is in custody at the Juvenile Detention Middle in Jackson County, Mo.
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