PHILADELPHIA — A suburban Philadelphia landlord secretly videotaped 34 female tenants over two decades after hiding cameras in their apartments, authorities said Friday.
Thomas Daley, 45, was arraigned on more than 2,000 charges by Magisterial District Judge Francis Lawrence and waived his preliminary hearing Friday.
Daley had installed the cameras — typically one in the bedroom and one in the bathroom — in at least seven apartments he rented to women in Norristown over the last 19 years, Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney Coley Reynolds said Friday.
Daley’s set-up fed the camera images to a recording system in the basement, enabling him to view the tapes from his home via the Internet, authorities have said.
He hid the tiny cameras behind mirrors and in cabinets and ceiling fans, and some turned on with the flip of a light switch, they said.
The investigation began after a tenant discovered a camera this year and contacted police, leading to Daley’s arrest Sept. 19 on charges including wiretapping and invasion of privacy. Detectives have since searched his other apartments and recovered videotapes, records and evidence that led to new charges Friday involving 34 current and former tenants.
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