A lot of folks are glad they don’t have to see their colleagues clad in nothing but scanty swimwear.
Not a young swim coach from Wisconsin, who deemed the levels of undress required in his line of work insufficient, but eventually ended up out of his depth.
Jacob Masbruch, 21, was arrested Friday after a female co-worker discovered he’d been taking a less than wholesome interest in staff changing habits.
The 17-year-old girl, a fellow instructor at the Swimtastic Swim School in Waukesha, first sensed something was amiss when she spotted a hole in a tissue box that had been placed on a shelf inside the employee locker room.
When she took a look inside the box she found a cellphone with a built-in camera aimed at the locker room changing area and showers, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Masbruch overheard the girl reporting the unsavoury find and tried telling her there was no need to take the matter further since he’d already smashed the device and thrown it down a locker room drain.
But with police already on their way, he chose to flee the scene, although officers later caught up with the amateur cameraman near his West Allis home.
Masbruch initally denied owning the cellphone, but later admitted it was his and that he had thrown it away.
He hadn’t done a particularly good job at losing the incriminating handset, however, as detectives were simply able to call it and use the ringtone to pinpoint its whereabouts in the swim center.
Authorities eventually found four videos on the recovered phone, each of a different female co-worker ranging in age from 15 and 25.
In total, Masbruch was charged with five counts of capturing an intimate representation without consent, including the 17-year-old who originally rumbled him.
He made his first court appearance on Monday and faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.
Waukesha police have reassured users of the swim center that the alleged secret filming took place in staff-only areas.
 | Waukesha, Wisconsin |
|---|---|
| Location: | 17 miles west of Milwaukee |
| Population: | 72,549 |
| Median Household Income: | $61,380 |
| Quirky Fact: | The city witnessed the first legal forward pass in football history. It was thrown by St. Louis University halfback Bradbury Robinson on September 5, 1906, in a game against home side Carroll College (now Carroll University). |
Great story! But a punishment of up to 25 years in prison is totally ridiculous! Some community service would surely be enough!