An employee at a Utah cell phone store has been arrested after he allegedly accessed a customer’s explicit photos and videos and messaged them back to her.
According to a probable cause statement, the victim contacted Roosevelt police on Monday after the photos and videos were sent to her phone via iMessage from a number she did not recognize. Because her daughter’s phone was also on her Apple account, the photos and videos were also sent to her.
On Tuesday, a police officer met with the victim. Police learned the number from which the photos and videos were sent belongs to a 33-year-old man. The officer asked the victim if she recognized his name.
According to the probable cause statement, she said a man by that name helped her change phones on Monday at an AT&T store in Roosevelt, moving data to her new device. The victim said she gave the man access to her Apple account, where the photos and videos were stored.
The victim told police she felt “violated,” and that she had only given the suspect her account information because he was an AT&T representative — that she didn’t think he would keep and use her account information.
On Wednesday, the investigating officer detained the suspect as he was leaving the AT&T store. The officer asked the suspect why he sent the photos and videos to the victim. The suspect “didn’t want to answer this and stated, ‘I better talk to somebody,’” according to the probable cause statement.
The suspect was arrested for investigation of distribution of pornography, a third-degree felony, and booked into the Duchesne County Jail. He is being held without bail.