Man Arrested For Improper Photography
By: Allison Morrison
Updated: August 6, 2009
Lubbock Police bust a man who they say has been following women around in public places and taking inappropriate pictures of them without their consent.
55-year-old Mitchell Turner was arrested just after 5:00 Wednesday afternoon at the Coronado Inn on North I-27.
Turner was indicted by a Lubbock County Grand Jury Tuesday, on charges of improper photography.
Court papers say he was caught red-handed at a local grocery store taking pictures of a woman who bent over to pick up a product off a shelf.
Also noted in the police report, Turner's camera was concealed in a case with a hole cut out for the lens.
Investigators believe he has done this several times in the past.
"Once the photographs were viewed, there was a substantial amount of probable cause to believe that these were taken with obvious intent...that these were taken to gratify the sexual desires of somebody, be him, or somebody else," Lubbock Police Captain Greg Stevens says.
Turner is being held in the Lubbock County Jail on a $100,000 bond.
