Teh One Who Knocks
07-25-2019, 10:34 AM
azfamily.com News Staff
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BUCKEYE, AZ (3TV/CBS5) -- A Goodyear man has been arrested for allegedly taking a cell phone video of a teenage boy going to the bathroom at a Buckeye Walmart.
Police say 33-year-old Alan Joseph Kaufman is a district manager for Regis Corporation, which runs the salons in Walmart stores and other low cost salons.
Kaufman now faces felony charges of unlawful recording and voyeurism.
The alleged incident happened Tuesday at the Walmart at Yuma and Watson roads in Buckeye.
Kaufman is accused of using his cell phone to record a 17-year-old boy who was urinating in a bathroom stall.
Police say Kaufman told them he was meeting "someone from the internet" who "agreed to let (Kaufman) record him while he urinated, for sexual stimulation," states the police report.
According to police, Kaufman said "the man from the internet" had described what he would be wearing, and Kaufman claimed it matched the description of what the teen victim was wearing.
Kaufman said he followed the victim into the store's restroom and "held his phone over the wall to the bathroom stall where the victim was urinating," according to the police report.
The victim reportedly saw the phone and knocked it to the ground, sending it sliding across the bathroom floor. The teen was able to grab the phone, leave the restroom and report the incident to his mother. His mother then called police.
Police say Kaufman "apologized" to the victim and stated that "he thought the victim was someone else."
Buckeye police say Kaufman admitted "he had engaged in this kind of activity once in the past in another Walmart."
Police say Kaufman’s cell phone did contain video that shows the phone rising over the bathroom stall, and then begins to show the victim using the restroom.
Officers arrived and took Kaufman into custody. He was booked into Maricopa County Fourth Avenue Jail but has since been released on his own recognizance.
Kaufman is due back in court on Aug. 6.
https://i.imgur.com/wvdlz7Hl.jpg
BUCKEYE, AZ (3TV/CBS5) -- A Goodyear man has been arrested for allegedly taking a cell phone video of a teenage boy going to the bathroom at a Buckeye Walmart.
Police say 33-year-old Alan Joseph Kaufman is a district manager for Regis Corporation, which runs the salons in Walmart stores and other low cost salons.
Kaufman now faces felony charges of unlawful recording and voyeurism.
The alleged incident happened Tuesday at the Walmart at Yuma and Watson roads in Buckeye.
Kaufman is accused of using his cell phone to record a 17-year-old boy who was urinating in a bathroom stall.
Police say Kaufman told them he was meeting "someone from the internet" who "agreed to let (Kaufman) record him while he urinated, for sexual stimulation," states the police report.
According to police, Kaufman said "the man from the internet" had described what he would be wearing, and Kaufman claimed it matched the description of what the teen victim was wearing.
Kaufman said he followed the victim into the store's restroom and "held his phone over the wall to the bathroom stall where the victim was urinating," according to the police report.
The victim reportedly saw the phone and knocked it to the ground, sending it sliding across the bathroom floor. The teen was able to grab the phone, leave the restroom and report the incident to his mother. His mother then called police.
Police say Kaufman "apologized" to the victim and stated that "he thought the victim was someone else."
Buckeye police say Kaufman admitted "he had engaged in this kind of activity once in the past in another Walmart."
Police say Kaufman’s cell phone did contain video that shows the phone rising over the bathroom stall, and then begins to show the victim using the restroom.
Officers arrived and took Kaufman into custody. He was booked into Maricopa County Fourth Avenue Jail but has since been released on his own recognizance.
Kaufman is due back in court on Aug. 6.