ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A University of Central Florida student accused of recording another student using a restroom faces an additional charge, campus police said Wednesday.
Shaun Regasa, 19, surrendered himself to police Sunday after police said he recorded a male student using a restroom in the Student Union on Jan. 18.
He was freed from jail on Tuesday after paying a $2,500 bail.
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During a news conference Wednesday, UCF police Chief Richard Beary said a warrant was issued to re-arrest Regasa after another case of voyeurism came to light.
In the second case, Beary said the suspect used a surveillance camera placed in an air vent to record a male student using a restroom near campus.
“The second incident was only IDed through good police work,” he said. “Going through that phone led us to that second victim that didn't even know that [he was] a victim.”
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Beary said there are likely more men who were unknowingly victimized, which hinders investigators from locating victims.
There’s another video that shows a man in a public restroom, Beary said, but police don't know where it was recorded.
When authorities first took Ragasa in for questioning, they said he appeared to be attempting to delete video from his phone.
The student in the previous incident told investigators that he heard a commotion in the stall next to him, looked up and saw a cellphone.
The student said he confronted Regasa and told him he would call police, but the suspect began to cry and told the victim that he could look through his cellphone and delete the picture, a report said.
The victim told police that he searched the phone but couldn’t find the picture, and Regasa took back his phone, said he would do anything not to get in trouble and ran from the bathroom, officials said.
Police said they tracked down Regasa through surveillance footage, which showed the suspect running from the bathroom.
Detectives said Regasa was wearing a shirt with the logo of a school club that meets on campus each Wednesday. Police said the logo helped them identify him.
When police confronted Regasa, they said he denied the allegations, but evidence was found later on his phone that he was recording people in bathroom stalls without their knowledge, a report said.
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