A patron reported finding this device in the men’s restroom of the Chattanooga Billiard Club downtown. The miniature camera was turned in to police, who say they are investigating.It looks like something from a spy movie. But you don’t have to be a movie star or a secret agent to use one. And you don’t have to be suspected of a crime to be monitored by one.
The day after Johns Hopkins Health System in Baltimore agreed to pay a $190 million settlement to patients who were treated by a gynecologist wearing a camera disguised as a pen around his neck, the shocking reality of intrusive, covert cameras surfaced Tuesday in Chattanooga.
Police are investigating a small, pen-shaped device containing a tiny camera and memory drive that a local man turned in to them Sunday night after his friend discovered it in the bathroom at the Chattanooga Billiard Club downtown.
Representatives at the business could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
Self-described computer-junkie Josh Neelands, 27, said the device his friend found contained video footage from several locations where men — and in at least one case a child — were using the bathroom.