New Paltz police are looking for a man who planted a spy camera on the floor of a Starbucks unisex bathroom. They have a great description of him—according to WCBS 2, he's "6-feet tall, 35 to 40 years of age, dark hair, bearded, with a mustache, horn rimmed glasses and a ponytail halfway down his back"—because he filmed himself while installing the camera. Lieutenant Steve Osarczuk, who explained the spycam was planted "to capture people in a private moment of a sexual nature," enjoyed the irony, "I think its absolutely beautiful. The footage that he wanted to get to hurt somebody else is now in our hands and we can use it to hurt him." A Starbucks employee found the small object on the floor and New Paltz Police say the suspect probably set it up before.
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