FBI workers accused of spying on dressing room

[Holly_Hobby]

Apr 20, 6:33 PM (ET)

By VICKI SMITH


MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - Two FBI workers are accused of using surveillance equipment to spy on teenage girls as they undressed and tried on prom gowns at a charity event at a West Virginia mall.

The FBI employees have been charged with conspiracy and committing criminal invasion of privacy. They were working in an FBI satellite control room at the mall when they positioned a camera on temporary changing rooms and zoomed in for at least 90 minutes on girls dressing for the Cinderella Project fashion show, Marion County Prosecutor Pat Wilson said Monday.

Gary Sutton Jr., 40, of New Milton and Charles Hommema of Buckhannon have been charged with the misdemeanors and face fines and up to a year in jail on each charge if convicted. Sutton has been released on bond, Wilson said, and Hommema is to be arraigned later this week. Wilson did not know Hommema's age.

The workers were described in a complaint as "police officers," but prosecutors did not say whether the men were agents or describe what kind of work they did.

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090420/D97MFGG00.html

[aquart]

1. "an FBI satellite control room at the mall'?

Say what????????

[Holly_Hobby]

8. Yeah, I'm thinking they monitor for terrorist activity, but

the FBI? I would think mall security could handle something like that.

[Bluebear]

2. Oh well. Now is the time for reflection, not retribution. Acknowledge their mistake & move on.

:silly:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. They should have joined the CIA where committing crimes without penalty is encouraged.

[Holly_Hobby]

7. +5 n/t

[ret5hd]

4. FBI pedophiles? FBI kiddie porn? how old were the teenagers?

[Holly_Hobby]

9. Prom aged girls, probably 15 to 18

They should be charged as pedophiles.

[provis99]

5. were they looking for Prom Queen terrorists?

[seabeyond]

6. their dna made them do it. if the girls where doing nothing wrong, they shouldnt worry

keeps us all safer, boys will be boys, that is what girls are there for, the guys to look at, men are entitled

[Captain Hilts]

10. I'll bet this isn't the first time they've done it. Gross. Lock 'em up. nt