Jefferson Valley Man Guilty of Taking Upskirt Videos at Golden's Bridge Train Station

CORRECTION: This article has been modified from its original version to correct Franklin Figueroa's employment status. He is no longer employed by Laz Parking. Information sent from the Westchester District Attorney's Office was incorrect.

BEDFORD, NY — A Jefferson Valley man has been found guilty of illegally videoing a high school student.

Franklin Figueroa, 27, of East Main Street, was convicted by a jury of second-degree unlawful surveillance, a felony, and endangering the welfare of a child, misdemeanor, Acting Westchester County District Attorney James A. McCarty announced Wednesday.

Police said Figueroa was at the Metro North Train Station in Golden’s Bridge around 2:50 p.m. March 2, 2015, when a shuttle bus transporting students from J.F.K. Catholic High School arrived.

The students were wearing school uniforms and they climbed a stairwell to the train platform.

Figueroa, police said, while sitting in that same stairwell, used a concealed video camera to take pictures from underneath the female student’s skirt.

A student, who realized what was going on, quickly photographed the defendant and his camera with her cellphone and wrote down the license plate number of the vehicle he went to.

The MTA Police were immediately contacted and he was later arrested.

Several recording devices were seized from Figueroa and were searched pursuant to warrant, which had revealed an earlier offense involving a student at the Golden’s Bridge train station in the spring of 2014.

At the time of his arrest, he was working for Laz Parking in Collections and Enforcement. His employment with the company ended in March 2016.

Figueroa faces a maximum sentence of four years in state prison and is scheduled to be sentenced January 11, 2017.

Photo caption: Franklin Figueroa. Photo credit: Westchester County DA.