Crime & Safety
Piedra Pleads Guilty To 'Upskirting' Charge
Westchester District Attorney today announced that a Sleepy Hollow man pled guilty in county court to taking pictures under women's skirts in a White Plains Target store last summer.
Jose Piedra, 48, of Sleepy Hollow, arrested in August 2011 after being caught by White Plains Target store security , pled guilty in Westchester County Court Thursday.
Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore announced that Piedra pled guilty to one count of unlawful surveillance in the second degree, a felony.
Piedra was caught on Target’s surveillance video holding his cellular phone under women’s skirts, or “upskirting,” according to DiFiore. As White Plains Police were searching the store for the culprit, store security apparently continued to watch video of Piedra doing the same thing to another woman in the store.
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Police with a warrant retrieved several video clip files of at least three women under similar circumstance on Piedra’s phone.
Sentencing is set for Dec. 13. He faces maximum possible sentence of four years in state prison and Piedra would have to register as a sex offender.
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