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$3 flashlight, $40 ladder
0) Repeat Criminal Loser
1) Suspect Access
2) New Devices
3) Layman Follows Wire to Basement
4) Recorder Found in Basement
5) Defendant Admits to the Bugging, Hilariously Improbable Defense
6) Person who found the cameras used a flashlight and ladder
7) No Bug Sweep Equipment was actually used
9) No TSCM person did the sweep
10) Just Saying...
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http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/03/lawyer_man_accused_of_installi.html
Lawyer: Man accused of installing spy cameras in rental home
bathroom, bedroom was trying to protect tenants
by Nate Reens | The Grand Rapids Press
Wednesday March 11, 2009, 5:48 PM
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP -- An arrest warrant says a suspect accused of
placing hidden video cameras in one of his father's rental properties
put the devices in a bedroom and a bathroom, court records reveal.
Bradley Scott-Irving Graves, 25, waived a probable cause hearing
Wednesday in Rockford District Court and will face trial on two
two-year felony charges for possessing and installing eavesdropping equipment.
Kent County sheriff's deputies were called to a Plainfield Township
residence in the 3600 block of Richton Ave. NE on Feb. 12 because
tenants believed the new alarms actually were recording devices. The
installation and discovery were made on the same day, police said.
The arrest affidavit alleges Graves went to the home and told the
tenants he was installing a smoke detector in the bedroom and a mold
detector in the bathroom.
A man in the home was suspicious of the claim from Graves, who acts
as the maintenance person for his father's rentals, according to
court documents.
"(The victim) further investigated and noted that the mold detector
was a camera as well as the detector in the bedroom," sheriff's
Detective Ed Kolakowski wrote in court records.
Police also found a VCR recording from the devices in a basement,
documents show.
"The tenant traced the wires all the way to the recorders," sheriff's
Lt. Chuck DeWitt said.
Graves could not be reached for comment.
His defense attorney, Deno Fotieo, said today that Graves installed
the cameras after a female tenant expressed safety concerns for
children in the home.
"There are no charges for any lewd or lascivious purpose," Fotieo
said. "The purpose was well-founded and for the protection of
children who may have been in danger at the residence.
"He put it in there for the residents' benefit." Fotieo did not
elaborate on the type of danger the minors were allegedly facing.
Police said they had not investigated any complaints of wrongdoing at
the rental.
Fotieo said authorities have been advised of the purpose of the
installation, and "hopefully they are pursuing that and will take
another look at the charges."
Graves was booked into the county jail on Feb. 18 and was released
that same day. He is free on a $5,000 cash bond, and a judge ordered
him to have no contact with the alleged victims.
State police records show he has prior a conviction for stealing a
bank card, a charge that put him on probation for 548 days. He was
also ordered to pay $800 in fine, costs and restitution from the 2004 offense.
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