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Police seek help finding voyeurism suspect

By Andy Matarrese, Columbian environment and transportation reporter
Published: December 6, 2016, 4:08pm
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The Battle Ground Police Department is trying to identify this man, seen here in surveillance video taken at the Battle Ground Wal-Mart. The man reportedly took surreptitious photographs of an employee at the store Monday evening while she used the restroom.
The Battle Ground Police Department is trying to identify this man, seen here in surveillance video taken at the Battle Ground Wal-Mart. The man reportedly took surreptitious photographs of an employee at the store Monday evening while she used the restroom. (Battle Ground Police Department) Photo Gallery

Battle Ground police are seeking tips to help them find a suspected voyeur who allegedly photographed a woman in the restroom of the city’s Wal-Mart store.

A store employee told officers that she was using the women’s restroom Monday between 6:30 and 7:10 p.m., when she saw the man taking pictures of her through a gap in the stall door, according to the Battle Ground Police Department. He walked away when she noticed.

Not long after, store employees found him in a stall of the same restroom, police said. Store employees told police that when they questioned the man about the incident, he immediately left.

Police said employees described the man as white, roughly 18 to 20 years old with an average build and scruffy appearance. He wore a camouflage jacket, blue jeans, brown work boots and a Metal Mulisha-brand cap.

He left the store’s parking lot in a small, older-model pickup with no bed, police said, adding that it might be an in-progress flatbed.

The police department asked anyone with helpful information about the case to contact Detective Sgt. Aaron Kanooth at 360-342-5254 or aaron.kanooth@cityofbg.org. Tipsters also can send information anonymously at www.cityofbg.org/tips.

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