Christopher Jones, a convicted sex offender, used a drone to peer into a woman’s bathroom as she prepared to take a shower, police said. (Photo: Cranston Police Department)
A convicted sex offender used a drone to peer into a woman’s bathroom, only to have it crash the device when she caught him in the act. Christopher Jones was arrested for video voyeurism.
Police responded to a home at 11 p.m. Wednesday where a woman said she spotted a drone peeking out of her bathroom window, officers in Cranston, Rhode Island said. She had just gotten home from work and was getting ready to use the shower, according to cops.
“Her bathroom window was slightly open,” police wrote. “She then heard a buzzing noise and went out into the garden, thinking it had something to do with her swimming pool. Once in the garden, she noticed a drone hovering outside her bathroom window where she was preparing to take a shower.
She approached the machine, and she quickly moved, hit a tree branch and fell to the ground, cops said.
“She quickly grabbed the drone before it took off and submerged it in her pool to deactivate it and called the police to report the drone was looking out her bathroom window,” they said.
Investigators say they tracked the drone to Jones, a convicted sex offender. He has not had to register since his requirement ended in 2015, police said.
Jones reportedly admitted to using the drone.
KATV went to Jones’ home on Midland Drive and spoke to a woman who identified herself as Jones’ mother. The woman said she didn’t know he had a drone. She acknowledged that the alleged victim was “probably upset”, but said she did not want to talk about the case.
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