An Advance pharmacy owner, Bruce Dovin, has been accused of installing a hidden camera in the employee restroom.
According to the probable cause statement, the Digital Forensics Unit of the Missouri Highway Patrol conducted an investigation in Stoddard County on May 26.
According to Corporal Dustin Reed in the statement, information from a verified source was received indicating a hidden camera was installed in the employee restroom of the pharmacy.
“The video was sent to investigators who verified it was taken in the pharmacy employee bathroom,” said Reed. “In the video, the owner of the pharmacy, Bruce Dovin, is clearly visible setting up the camera, however no employees were on the video.”
Reed said a search warrant was executed at Dovin's residence and his cellular phone was examined.
Inside a password protected application on the phone investigators discovered three hidden camera videos taken from the restroom at the pharmacy.
Reed said in the statement that the videos show adult females going to the restroom and one changing clothes.
“The above described videos contain a total of two identified victims. Dovin was visible on each video setting up the camera, concealing it then later retrieving it,” said Reed. “During an inteiview, Dovin confessed to creating the recordings.”
Dovin is charged with three counts of invasion of privacy. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing in front of Judge Joe Z. Satterfield on June 23. The investigation is ongoing.