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Queens Man Accused Of Planting Phone In Gym Ceiling To Film Women: PD

A Queens man was charged with unlawful surveillance after a woman saw a phone recording her in a Nassau gym's tanning studio, police said.

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A man planted his cell phone in the ceiling of Planet Fitness in Great Neck, police said, to illegally record women in the gym's tanning studio.
A man planted his cell phone in the ceiling of Planet Fitness in Great Neck, police said, to illegally record women in the gym's tanning studio. (Nassau County Police Department)

QUEENS — A Queens man stands accused of planting his cell phone in the ceiling of a Great Neck gym to secretly record women in its tanning studio, according to police.

Demetrius Sumter, 27, faces a felony charge after a woman, 20 discovered the phone inside the Planet Fitness on Great Neck Road Saturday, according to police and a Pix11 report.

Sumter, 27, was arraigned Sunday on an unlawful surveillance charge in Nassau County Sunday, New York court records show.

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Unlawful surveillance convictions can also result in placement on sex offender registry, according to the New York State Sex Offender Registration Act.

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