HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Houston man has been arrested after allegedly recording a girl inside a restroom at a neighborhood brewery.
Edrie Vieyra, 39, is charged with invasive visible recording in a toilet, a felony beneath Texas regulation.
The incident occurred final July at Dangerous Astronaut Brewing Firm on Fulton Road. Drusilla Bilton, who was visiting the favored brewery that night for a pal’s birthday celebration, says she was in a restroom stall when she seen one thing alarming.
“I seen an arm with a digicam,” Bilton recalled. “I instantly screamed and ran to chase the man, not realizing if I might see him or not.”
In response to courtroom paperwork, surveillance footage from the brewery exhibits a person getting into the ladies’s restroom, then fleeing two minutes later, chased by the sufferer. The brewery’s employees pulled the person’s tab, which contained his title, mentioned supervisor Tiare Austin, and turned over each the receipt and surveillance footage to police.
“It is disappointing that ruined their evening,” mentioned Austin. “We took motion as quick as we may, received the surveillance, and reported it to HPD.”
Vieyra was arrested late Tuesday, almost a 12 months after the incident, and appeared in possible trigger courtroom. His public defender said that he’s married and has lived within the Houston space for 9 years.
Bilton, who says she was shaken and offended after the incident, is now talking out in hopes of encouraging others to return ahead in the event that they’ve skilled comparable invasions of privateness.
“Individuals are afraid and ashamed, however there isn’t a disgrace on this,” she mentioned.
Bilton says the expertise has left her extra cautious in public restrooms.
“It is simply the world we reside in. You may’t belief everybody,” she mentioned.
Vieyra stays in jail on an immigration maintain with a bond of $15,000.
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