Rams Head Tavern Owner Pleads Guilty in Peeping Tom Case

A Rams Head executive will be serving time in jail for peeping tom charges, according to court records.

Kyle Muehlhauser, 37, of Severna Park was charged Feb. 19 with six counts of visual surveillance with prurient (sexual) intent that occurred on May 9, 2014, according to the Howard County Police Department.

He pleaded guilty to two counts and will serve 90 days in jail, after a Howard County Circuit Court judge sentenced him to 365 days and suspended 275 days.

Officials said Muehlhauser recorded six women on a digital recording device mounted in the bathroom at the Rams Head Tavern in Savage. The device was exposed while a woman was using the restroom last May.

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The Howard County state’s attorney’s office provided this information from the statement of facts read in court Thursday morning:

On May 9, 2014, the victims were having lunch with friends at the Ram’s Head Tavern located in Savage, Maryland, Howard County. Prior to leaving, the victim went to use the single-occupancy restroom located on the main level. Another victim had used the restroom first, and she entered thereafter. The victim used the restroom and then heard something fall to the ground next to her. At first she had thought she dropped her phone, but then noticed a small black object with a green light illuminated under the bathroom sink.

Upon further inspection, she believed it to be a recording device. The victim placed the object in her purse and exited the restroom. She did not tell her friend what she had found. After leaving the restaurant she drove to the Southern District Police Station to report what she had found.

The detective investigating the case found velcro was used to attach the device to the underside of the bathroom sink, so the camera was pointed toward the toilet, according to the statement. The velcro gave way, and the victim could be seen picking up the device, the statement said.

Surveillance video from the restaurant in Savage showed a man matching Muehlhauser’s description mounting the camera in the bathroom, according to police. Authorities previously reported they obtained lab results with DNA that matched his.

Muehlhauser turned himself in to police on Feb. 19, and was released from the Howard County Detention Center on $35,000 bond the next day, police reported. He was taken into custody after court on Thursday to serve his sentence.