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An Orem man charged earlier his year with voyeurism for allegedly using a drone to take footage of people in their bedrooms and bathrooms has been accused of threatening a witness in the case.
Prosecutors on Thursday filed a third-degree felony charge in 4th District Court of retaliation against a witness and five class A misdemeanor charges of violation of a protective order against Aaron Dennis Foote. The alleged victim is Terisha Lee Norviel, who is Foote's ex-wife and a co-defendant in the voyeurism case.
Foote, 39, and Norviel, 34, were each charged in January in 4th District Court with one count of voyeurism using concealed or disguised electronic equipment, a class A misdemeanor.
According to an affidavit for a search warrant in the voyeurism case, an Orem man saw a drone flying outside his bathroom window on Dec. 3, followed it as it flew away from his home and picked it up after it landed in a nearby church parking lot. The drone's memory card showed multiple videos of people in their homes, the affidavit says.
In a probable cause statement filed in the retaliation case, police say Norviel reported on Wednesday that Foote had been sending text messages and emails and leaving voicemails threatening to come to St. George, where she now lives, to have her children taken away from her and to get her fired from her job.
The probable cause statement says Norviel is testifying against Foote in the voyeurism case and has a protective order barring her ex-husband from harassing, threatening or using physical force against her. The two were divorced in 2016, according to court records.
Court records show that in 2008, Foote pleaded guilty to a class B misdemeanor charge of voyeurism involving an American Fork tanning salon and was placed on a year of probation. As a condition of his probation, he was required to complete a treatment program for voyeurism.
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