Former State Department Official Pleads Guilty in Voyeurism Case: Report

Daniel Rosen, a former State Department official, has pleaded guilty in a voyeurism case, according to WTOP.

Rosen of D.C. faces up to 11 years in prison when he’s sentenced, the radio station reported Wednesday.

DC police arrested State Department official Daniel Rosen in March 15 on charges of voyeurism, according to a news release from police.

Rosen, 44, of Northwest, DC, was arrested at 3:45 p.m. Sunday in accordance with a DC Superior Court arrest warrant, charging him with voyeurism and stalking, police said.

Media reports, including NBC-4, says he secretly recorded women in their own homes in their bedrooms and bathrooms. Police have 40 videos with 24 victims but have only identified two women. The videos appear to have been taken through windows and curtains, police said. They say Rosen may not have appeared suspicious because he may have been walking his dog.

Rosen’s arrest stems from a February case investigated by the Fairfax County Police Department, DC police said. That investigation led authorities to obtain a search warrant for Rosen’s cell phone, which contained multiple video files that depicted acts of voyeurism, according to police.

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The investigation of those videos revealed that they occurred in the District of Columbia, according to DC police.

Members of MPD’s Youth Investigations Division determined that the device included images of multiple victims who appear to be females over the age of 18. The incidents occurred in the Adams Morgan, Mount Pleasant and U Street neighborhoods. Police didn’t provide any description of the videos.

Rosen was arrested in February “following a series of online exchanges” with the Fairfax County Police Department’s Child Exploitation Unit, according to Fairfax County police.

Rosen exchanged messages with an undercover officer whom he thought was a 14-year-old girl in order to solicit sex, according to a report by The Washington Times.

Rosen was charged with one count of using of a communications device to solicit a juvenile. He was free on $25,000 bond after his February arrest, according to The Washington Post.

Rosen’s LinkedIn account (now deleted) listed him as director of counterterrorism, plans, programs and policy for the State Department, since 2008, overseeing a $300 million annual budget and 20 personnel. His security clearance was revoked after his first arrest and he was placed on administrative leave, according to the Times article and other media reports.