After two Duke students reported that a man was photographing them through a hole in the wall of the womenOs restroom at CafZ Parizade, charges have been filed against a busboy at the restaurant for secret peeping..
After two Duke students reported that a man was photographing them through a hole in the wall of the women"s restroom at CafZ Parizade, charges have been filed against Jose Adrian Gloria Tovar, a busboy at the restaurant, for felony secret peeping and misdemeanor secret peeping.
At about 11 p.m. Jan. 27, two women attending a party at the popular nightspot went to the back room to use the single-occupancy ladies" restroom. They were discussing a picture that was hanging on the wall when they both saw a flash from directly underneath the frame, one of the women said. Upon closer investigation, they discovered a quarter-sized hole in the wall that connected to the men"s restroom.
The two immediately left the ladies" room and knocked repeatedly on the door of the men"s room, according to a statement from the Durham Police Department.
'The busboy answered the door, and we confronted him,' said one of the women, who both asked to remain anonymous. 'But he was holding the door in such a way that we couldn"t see the wall.'
After a bartender working the back room bar intervened, the women entered the men"s restroom. They said that behind a hanging frame on the wall they discovered a large hole that allowed a clear view into the women"s restroom and a camera cell phone in the trash can.
'We found a camera phone with graphic pictures of us and other women in the garbage among the paper towels,' one of the women said. 'He tried to take it back, but we wouldn"t give it.'
The women called the police 30 minutes after the initial incident occurred, according to an e-mail from Kammie Michael, public relations coordinator for DPD. Tovar, 28, was arrested and fired from Parizade shortly thereafter.
The women claimed that several sources indicated similar incidents had happened before and that Parizade was aware of the situation. But Igor Gacina, general manager of Parizade, asserted that it was first time and would be the last such an incident happened.
'It definitely won"t happen again in the future,' Gacina said. 'The hole is patched now, and the man was fired on the spot. It was reported once, and it happened once. Nothing like this was ever reported.'
There were nine pictures on the camera phone from Thursday night, the woman said. The women claimed there may be an online photo journal with more pictures and parts of the case were referred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Michael said an investigator was examining the case further, but she did not specify if the investigator worked for the Durham or federal government.
Tovar"s bond was set at $4,000, and he was unable to be reached for comment.
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