COLUMBUS – A 33-year-old Reynoldsburg has been accused of trying to shoot a cell-phone video up the skirt of a woman while she was shopping at an East Side grocery store Tuesday.
The victim, a 33-year-old woman, told police she was shopping at the Kroger store in the East Pointe Crossing Shopping Center, 7000 E. Broad Street, at approximately 2:00 p.m. when she “felt someone close to her” and noticed a handheld shopping basket at her feet with a cell-phone pointing upward, said Det. James Ashenhurst of the Columbus Police Sexual Assault Unit.
The position of the phone in the basket was pointing up the victim’s skirt, Ashenhurst said.
Police say the woman confronted Luis Palomares-Nila and asked an employee to contact a manager while she called police.
Kroger security responded as well as Columbus police officers and the store’s security camera was able to record the incident, police said.
After questioning the victim and Palomares-Nila, he was issued a summons to appear in court on Aug. 13 on a misdemeanor charge of voyeurism.