Former Firefighter Charged For Secret Video Of Female Colleague

DENVER, CO – A former Denver Fire lieutenant was charged Thursday with secretly hiding a camera in a female firefighter's living quarters and recording her changing clothes, then tampering with the device when he was found out.

Recently-retired Denver Fire Department Lieutenant, Daniel Flesner, 47, was charged by prosecutors in the Sex Assault Unit of the Denver District Attorney’s Office with felony tampering with physical evidence and a misdemeanor count of "invasion of privacy for sexual gratification," the DA's office said.

Flesner was put on suspension and retired from the fire department after he was contacted by Denver police.

The device was found March 30 by a female firefighter at Denver Fire House #9 in the 4400 block of North Brighton Boulevard, according to a police affidavit . The woman told police she spoke to Flesner, who was her supervisor, and then heard a recording of her voice play back. She "had a feeling that someone was recording her," she told police. She searched her room and found a spy-camera charger that had a camera lens facing the area where she changes clothing.

When she brought the charger to Flesner he urged her to stall reporting it to anyone else, then took the device away, the police report said. When she asked to see what images were on the SD card, Flesner pretended to try to remove it with a pin and said it was jammed in the device.

The woman told Flesner's supervising captain about the device and Flesner later admitted to police that he placed it in her room.

Flesner's next court hearing is scheduled for April 22.