Police have captured an alleged peeping Tom who is suspected of prowling a Sandy Springs tanning salon.
Cary A. Miller, 47, of Dunwoody, was arrested Friday after a woman said he held his camera phone over the partition of a tanning booth to photograph her.
“It was kind of creepy,” the 28-year-old Lawrenceville woman told The Atlanta Journal Constitution on Tuesday.
The woman said she threw on her shirt, grabbed her shoes and ran out into the lobby, where she informed the manager, who verified that a man was in the booth.
Miller left Planet Beach Tanning “acting very nervous” before police could arrive, according to a Sandy Springs police report.
But Officer B.C. Crisp and Sgt. N.C. Vik tracked Miller to his two-story house on Vernon North Drive because a shop employee had gotten his vehicle’s tag number and his address was on file with Planet Beach because he was a regular patron.
The officers found Miller, and he allowed them to search his phone. No photos were found, but Miller admitted deleting them, the police report said.
“I asked him what happened at the tanning center,” Crisp wrote. “He advised that he did in fact make a mistake and held his I-Phone over the wall and took a photo of the victim while she was dressing.”
Police handcuffed Miller and booked him into the Fulton County jail’s Alpharetta annex on charges of unlawful eavesdropping or surveillance. He was released on a signature bond.
Miller was charged with a felony but is unclear whether he will face any jail time, said Capt. Steve Rose, spokesman for Sandy Springs police, who suggested Miller’s biggest trouble might be on the home front.
“It is a peeping Tom – I don’t know what his family life is going to be like after this situation,” Rose said.
Miller, a manager for a manufacturing company, could not be reached for comment.
The Lawrenceville woman hopes police will be able to prove Miller took pictures of her in the nude, which could lead to more charges especially if he was a repeat offender.
Police have secured a warrant for Miller’s phone and are searching it to try to recover deleted photographs, which the woman believes he took.
“He has been tanning there for a long time and you can tell from his mugshot that he is not that tan, so I’m sure there will be more to to come,” she said.
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