Sex Offender Arrested For Using Drone To Spy On Naked Next Door Neighbor
Not just a creepy pervert, but also a bumbling fucking idiot, as he crashed the drone he was using to spy on his naked neighbor into a tree branch outside her window. Via The Smoking Gun:
A convicted sex offender is facing a video voyeurism charge after he allegedly flew a drone to peer into the bathroom window of a female neighbor, according to Rhode Island police.
Investigators say Stephanie Merola, 32, was preparing to take a shower in her Cranston residence Wednesday evening when she heard a buzzing sound outside the bathroom window.
When Merola went outside to investigate, cops say, she spotted a drone hovering near the window. As she approached the drone, it began to fly away, but struck a tree branch and fell to the ground. Merola then grabbed the drone and dunked it in her pool, disabling the quadcopter’s electronics.
A subsequent police investigation resulted in the arrest of Christopher Jones, 49, whose home–where he lives with his 72-year-old mother–abuts Merola’s property. While cops did not reveal how the defendant was linked to the drone, they say that Jones “admitted he was the operator.”
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TSG notes that while the suspect is a convicted sex offender, his requirement to register as one expired in 2015. He was arraigned on a felony video voyeurism charge last week.
The drone:
