I'm calling because we just received an
anonymous tip that someone has a camera
in our employee bathroom and is
uploading videos
online can I
replace police police department police
department we still haven't made my
charges we our charges you're not
supposed to be judgmental to anybody's
Crimes by the way on July 19th
2022 the police in an Arbor Michigan
responded to the Brierwood shopping mall
after receiving this unusual ual call
about video footage from a store
bathroom being uploaded online
horrifically the resulting investigation
into a techsavvy Peeping Tom would
spread throughout the city of an arbor
the final number of cameras and victims
is enough to make your skin crawl the
following footage has never been seen
before after receiving the 911 call an
officer headed out to the Brierwood mall
to get more information about the camera
supposedly hidden in the bathroom of the
store altered state the story the
manager on duty had to tell was a
strange one this morning it was my boss
who took the phone call I don't know
what time it was this morning from a
restricted number he was like it's a
restricted website you're not going to
find it but I just wanted to let you
know the responding officer headed to
the bathroom to take a look for herself
notably the bathroom was usually
reserved for employees which
significantly narrowed down the pool of
suspects and did you go through all the
toilet paper we did we moved it around a
little little bit we could probably look
through it again cuz some of them were
like sideway yeah on that shelf but I
mean I don't know how I know they can be
tiny police would learn soon enough that
the employees at altered state were not
the only ones to have their privacy
violated in an unanticipated Shocker the
police would find over 200 hidden camera
videos from no less than seven different
bathrooms throughout the city over the
next month and a half all were filmed
without sent between January and July
2022 horrifically this included illegal
images of children the depravity didn't
stop there when searching the offender's
laptop the police found he had engaged
with online adult websites where images
and personal information of Unknowing
victims were distributed police
suspected the culprit intended to
participate in such exchanges after they
found additional images of the victims
taken from social media downloaded to
his laptop at the onset of the
investigation however police had no idea
how extensively the privacy of many
residents of an arbor had been breached
yeah if you that up you can see the spot
where the dust was like cleared off at
but even though the officer looked in
the vent and light fixture herself no
camera was found did you find anything
in the restroom there or no no but
everything's ripped apart so everybody
can look like we ripped apart the vent
of the toilet the light switch the
switch by the sces like we've ripped
everything apart and we're not finding
anything even though the anonymous
caller believed the video he saw was a
live stream he could have been mistaken
the working theory was that the culprit
could have put the camera up at the
start of a shift and then taken it home
to upload the footage something else the
anonymous caller said prevented the
current lack of evidence from
stonewalling the investigation and then
he's like do you have a tall
africanamerican Or Hispanic male who
works for you which we do we have one
male that's tall African-American that
works here and he goes I would look
there the man fitting the caller's
description was 36-year-old Eric Deshawn
Morton this was not his first runin with
police but everyone said he was going to
the bathroom a lot last night and they
thought that he just like was trying to
not work it seemed likely that Eric was
up to something far more nefarious than
just slacking especially when the
manager added that he made a habit of
using the lady's restroom rather than
the men's room when he was previously
asked about this Eric made the excuse
that he used the lady's room because it
was stocked with gloves which he said he
liked to wear while he worked on July 22
an arbor police sought a better
explanation when they showed up at
Eric's apartment with a search warrant
and a master key from the property
manager can I replace
and I
replace moving upstairs
y police police department Police
Department police department come on out
your hands up come on out hands up hands
up where you
stand got nothing
on I just detain
yeah do that how you going is there
anyone else inside the house my son
inside the house how old is he 6 years
old years okay where's he at good he's
he's upstairs right now is he awake yes
he is is he the only one in yes he is
okay here can
youe are you good if I bringing your son
down here to you yes I can get after
learning that Eric's son was present the
officers decided to uncuff him they
escorted his son outside to play and
brought out some snacks to keep the
child occupied while the search
progressed this isn't necessarily
protocol but rather a considerate way to
avoid traumatizing a child one of the
first things the investigators might
have noticed when they entered the
living room was a laptop computer open
in front of the couch a pin camera
containing a Micro SD card was connected
via
USB a little more investigation revealed
the presence of several additional
laptops and tablets including this file
organizer of MacBooks while this might
seemed like a lot of equipment this was
just the beginning of what the police
found when going through one of the
bedrooms they found a small black bag
containing more hidden cameras some of
which were like the pen camera found in
the living room memory cards adapters
and external hard drives were also
inside finally Eric's phone and several
unopened Amazon boxes were also
collected as possible evidence Eric
wasn't taken into custody at this time
as simply owning these items wasn't a
pun able offense however the electronics
were all sent for forensic analysis over
the next month and a half computer
forensics experts discovered his stash
of more than 200 secretly recorded
videos of people using the bathroom and
that was only the beginning of what Eric
had been up to on September 6th 7 weeks
exactly since the initial investigation
at altered state the police tracked Eric
down at his other job at a local hotel
little did he know when showed up for
his shift that he was in for quite an
unpleasant
surprise let's
go
good
here bud okay
one of the officers went to the building
next door to retrieve a manager to cover
the rest of Eric's shift while the
others on the scene proceeded with the
arrest you might notice that Eric wasn't
read his Miranda rights ideally only the
detective who interviews a suspect will
do this arresting officers are not
supposed to ask questions about the case
however anything a suspect says
unprompted before their advised of their
rights would still be admissible in
court in these instances the officers
should not respond
as asking further questions could render
the information
non-admissible keep your feet
spread sir St search policy I
understand this wasn't the first
encounter Eric had had with law
enforcement he'd previously been
arrested back in 2015 coincidentally by
some of the same officers in May 20155
Eric was arrested after a woman caught
him filming her through a peephole while
she used a portapotty further
investigation revealed more of Eric's
Disturbing Behavior in 2022 Eric was
confronted by a co-worker who found a
camera disguised as a phone charger in
the women's restroom it was plugged in
and facing the toilet Eric insisted it
was a regular phone charger and fled
with the device unsurprisingly he was
fired from his job though the basic
facts of the case were already Beyond
The Pale the case escalated to a whole
new level level when the police found an
appalling 7,000 videos of unclothed or
partially clothed people in Eric's
possession some had even been recorded
in a private residence they also found
images taken up women's skirts which
suggested he had a camera device
attached to his shoe this particular
unpleasant collection dated all the way
back to
2010 he'd also been arrested for similar
actions in 2006 though this was cleared
from his record through a program for
young firsttime
offenders not going to say anything Sor
last name so I mean you got to be booked
this is not like anything investigatory
I mean you guys know my last name I do
not know who you are
oh the police were able to retrieve
Eric's information from the arrest
warrant and proceed with the booking
however there was one more surprise in
store for the night D you just took off
it belongs in the wallet too right we're
going to seize that
my property now this will go into
evidence the thumb drive contained
exactly what you'd
expect I don't think you guys tell me
what the war was
for let read it
what capturing and distributing image of
unclothed
person after his arrest on September 6th
Eric paid his set bail of 100,000 ,000
but just a few days later police were
tracking him down yet again on September
15th I still haven't got my charges sir
what's that I still haven't got my
charges of what I'm being arrested
for same you
were well can you please tell me my Char
specifically
please you still haven't ra my charges
where's my charges have another like 14
counts of your video
stuff we got more the same stuff that
you arrested for a week ago okay it's is
depending investigation but if you guys
already know
that okay but there's more charges
so more times equals more charges yeah
it's going to get squashed in the same
case though
oh I mean by squash is going to get put
together in the same case
had two separate
cases so every everything they found
they said they they said they found it
is under the same case pretty much no
cuz CU investigation is still pending so
so say you you walk into a crowded
building and you punch 15 people in the
face in one time period right that's 15
different victims each victim is a
different case Okay so that person gets
arrested and he bails out how in the
world is he getting charged again for
the 15 people has already been done
right so so how maybe it was actually 18
people and three more people didn't know
what had happened and then they came
forward then you would have those new
charges so how come the charger not just
added to the original case it's not just
adding because it can't be rearrested on
something you already arrested for even
more of Eric's hidden bathroom cameras
were found after his arrest in
2022 it seems like getting caught never
became a deterrent for Eric though he'd
previously served time for similar
actions sometimes stamps on his
recordings even showed that he continued
his ways on the same day he was
discharged leading to his present arrest
but despite the overwhelming evidence
against him Eric attempted to shift the
blame away from himself hey detective he
wants to ask yeah detective you know the
phone you know the phone that you took
yeah it's not my phone okay it's in your
possession man yeah I know it's in my
possession who who does it belong to it
belongs to my my brother's friends let
me just do what I need to do with it and
if I can prove that it's nothing that I
need I'll just I can I'll turn it back
over my be in contact with you okay
sounds good Eric's mood did not improve
on the way to the police station oh yeah
by the way officer when you say that do
worse stuff you're supposed to be an
officer of the law not supposed to be
judgmental anybody's crimes like that by
the way you're not supposed to be
judgmental to anybody's Crimes by the
way I need your badge number by the way
I didn't do anything I don't know what
you're talking no when when you when you
when I say I do worse when you when you
say I do worse stuff when I was getting
in the car no when you said yeah you're
not supposed to do that fight I you're
right it's yeah but you're not supposed
to do that why am I not because you're
not supposed to judge crimes you're
supposed to beud talking all right man
unlike the previous case against him 15
victims had been successfully identified
in this
one hey
stranger in 2024 Eric was convicted of
13 felonies Eric was sentenced to 8 to
20 years and will not be eligible for
parole until
2030 the true number of Eric Morton's
victims along with the identity of the
anonymous caller who started the
investigation will likely never be known
until at least 2030 however an arbor
remained safe from Eric's disturbing
surveillance