ALEXANDRIA, VA – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced on Wednesday that it had arrested a Maryland man convicted over the summer of illegal filming in an Alexandria restaurant bathroom.
According to an ICE press release, Joshua Hombrebueno, 20, of Oxon Hill, was arrested on Tuesday. Hombrebueno was sentenced to six months in prison and five years' probation in August after being convicted on two counts of unlawful filming of a nude person over 18.
Hombrebueno, who is originally from the Philippines, was originally charged with three felony counts and nine misdemeanor counts of unlawful image creation after a mother and three-year-old girl discovered a cell phone secretly recording people in an employee bathroom in Del Ray's Gustave Boulangerie in September 2025. Hombrebueno was an employee of the restaurant.
Police say the camera, concealed inside the vanity of an employee bathroom, held recordings of multiple victims, including adults and children, all taped without their knowledge while using the restroom.
Hombrebueno pleaded not guilty.
ICE says Hombrebueno is in the U.S. illegally. He does not yet appear on the Department of Homeland Security web page cataloging detentions of undocumented migrants convicted of crimes in the U.S.
ICE didn't say how Hombrebueno was taken into custody. Patch has contacted DHS for comment.
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