Suspect in bathroom-filming investigation wants camera back

Suspect in bathroom-filming investigation wants camera back

A local chiropractor being sued over allegations he filmed people using the unisex bathroom in his office is saying the Sheriff’s Department should give him his camera, computer and cellphone back since the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office has declined to charge him.

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station officials, who indicated last month their efforts are ongoing, were unavailable to provide details Friday.

Local deputies arrested Nicholas Vanderhyde, 41, who ran an office out of The Joint Chiropractic, an Arizona-based franchise, back in June when they served a search warrant at his Valencia home and seized several electronic devices.

The arrest came about a month after an employee at The Joint reported finding a camera tucked away in a shelf in the bathroom, attached to a battery source.

An investigator later wrote in an affidavit that the search warrant was based on evidence he found that implicated Vanderhyde as soon as the recovered camera was turned on back at the SCV Sheriff’s Station.

The detective’s report described footage of a man adjusting the camera so that it pointed at the toilet. When he looked at The Joint’s staffing page, he immediately recognized Vanderhyde as the man he was watching, he wrote. The camera also contained surreptitious footage of men, women and juveniles using the bathroom and exposing their genitalia.

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