Police: Man arrested for videotaping women in Syracuse University bathroom
Courtesy of the Syracuse Police Department
The Life Sciences Complex is at 107 College Place.
UPDATED: Jan. 22, 2018 at 8:26 p.m.
A Liverpool man has been arrested for videotaping women inside of a bathroom in Syracuse University’s Life Sciences Complex, police said.
Garrett J. Monds, 27, was arrested by the Syracuse Police Department on Friday and charged with unlawful surveillance in the second degree, said Syracuse Police Department Sgt. Richard Helterline in a press release issued Monday afternoon.
Last Wednesday, Jan. 17, Department of Public Safety officers responded to a suspicious person call at the complex, 107 College Place, police said.
A woman had reported that a man was in a woman’s bathroom on the first floor of the complex, Helterline said. DPS officers then observed Monds leaving the bathroom, Helterline said.
“Monds was unable to provide any viable reason for him to be there, or on the Syracuse University Campus,” Helterline said.
Detectives in the SPD’s Abused Persons Unit were notified of the incident and conducted an investigation, Helterline said. Police later determined that Monds was using a cell phone to videotape women in the bathroom, Helterline said.
The university did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this story.
Monds is currently lodged at the Onondaga County Justice Center, records show. His bail and bond have been set at $25,000 and $50,000, respectively, records show.
According to CNYCentral, Monds has been arrested for similar incidents on two separate occasions in the past year. As a Onondaga Community College student, Monds was placed on interim suspension in spring 2017 after being charged with unlawful surveillance for taking photos of women in a bathroom, police said, according to CNYCentral.
Monds, while working at a Rite Aid Warehouse in Liverpool last fall, was also arrested and charged with unlawful surveillance in the second degree after police said he took photos of a woman in a bathroom there, according to CNYCentral.
This post has been updated with additional reporting.
Published on January 22, 2018 at 2:41 pm
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