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A restaurant manager who allegedly set up a cell phone to secretly record video in the women’s restroom of a Santa Rosa restaurant was arrested this week, police said.
Authorities were alerted Monday by a customer of the Ohana Hawaiian BBQ at 2150 Santa Rosa Ave. The woman told police she made a habit of checking air vents after seeing videos on social media about hidden recording devices.
“She saw what appeared to be a cellular phone in the vent, with the camera lens facing the interior of the bathroom,” Santa Rosa police said Tuesday in a news release.
She called police and notified the manager, and then guarded the single-user bathroom so that no one else would enter before police responded.
When officers arrived, they removed the vent cover and recovered the phone, police said.
“They noted the cell phone was recording video and had been recording for approximately 46 minutes,” police said.
The phone allegedly belonged to …