Electrician Admits Placing Hidden Cameras In Customer's Bathroom

GOSHEN, NY — A New Jersey electrician admitted his guilt in installing hidden cameras in the bathroom of a customer. Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler said Thursday that Joseph Krenicky, 48, of Glenwood, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to second-degree unlawful surveillance.

Krenicky said he put the hidden camera in the bathroom of a woman in the Town of Chester who had hired him to do electrical work, authorities said.

He had been charged with a similar offense in New Jersey.

Prosecutors said Krenicky admitted keeping video files of the homeowner as she stepped into and out of the shower and using them for his own sexual gratification.

The plea agreement said prosecutors will recommend Krenicky be sentenced to one to three years in state prison, concurrent to whatever prison sentence he receives in New Jersey.

He will also be required to register as a sex offender.

Krenicky is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 12.

The case in Orange County began after the New Jersey State Police executed a search warrant at Krenicky’s home in New Jersey. Video files of those Krenicky had surreptitiously recorded were recovered from his computer. The Town of Chester Police Department was instrumental in identifying the Orange County victim.

Hoovler said that one can scarcely conceive of a greater invasion of privacy that being surreptitiously recorded in one's own bathroom.

"Homeowners must necessarily allow contractors and others into their home to perform work," he said. "Those who abuse their ability to access homes to use technology to invade the privacy of unsuspecting victims deserve incarceration."

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