Big Island police charged a man accused of using his cell phone to record women in public bathrooms.
Faavae Tuinei, 35, was arrested Saturday after officers took two separate reports of a man using a cell phone to record women in public bathrooms.
Tuinei allegedly went into a women’s public bathroom in Hilo and used a cellular phone in a bathroom stall to record a 24-year-old woman using the bathroom in the next stall.
When witnesses confronted him, he left the area on foot.
Less than an hour later, Tuinei was allegedly observed using a cellular phone in an adjacent stall to record a 13-year-old girl using a public bathroom in the Panaewa area.
A relative of the victim detained him until police arrived.
Tuinei was arrested and held at the Hilo police cellblock while detectives from the Area I Criminal Investigations Section continued the investigation.
On Monday night, they charged him with two counts of first-degree violation of privacy.
He remained in the cellblock in lieu of $20,000 bail until his initial court appearance in South Hilo District Court on Tuesday afternoon.
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