After following a woman in a Target store for several minutes, a 26-year-old man bent down and used his cellphone to take pictures up her skirt, according to Marietta police.
But while Joshua Benathean Mcdonald was allegedly busy with his own camera, surveillance cameras in the store caught his acts. Thursday afternoon, the Fulton County man turned himself in to face a felony eavesdropping charge for the July 23 crime, Cobb County jail records show.
"The entire incident was recorded on Target security cameras and the video and still photos from the video are in evidence," according to an arrest warrant obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Mcdonald was spotted by store security guards carrying a red shopping basket, Officer Dave Baldwin with Marietta police told the AJC. But Mcdonald was seen on the store cameras setting the basket down on the floor in order to lean down and take pictures, Baldwin said.
Store video cameras also captured Mcdonald getting into a Chevrolet HHR registered to his mother, who told police her son is the one who drives the vehicle, the warrant states. Mcdonald's father identified his son in an image from the Target camera, according to police.
An arrest warrant was issued for Mcdonald on Aug. 3, but he was not immediately taken into custody, police said. Mcdonald's bond is expected to be set at $5,000.
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