Police: Employee took changing room pictures in Fayetteville

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Police arrested an Abercrombie & Fitch employee Wednesday after he admitted to taking pictures of customers while they changed clothes, according to an arrest report.

Arvis Trey Harper, 23, of 6401 S.W. Mallet Road in Bentonville faces a felony charge in connection with video voyeurism.

Officers were called to Abercrombie & Fitch, 4201 N. Shiloh Drive, just before 5 p.m. Wednesday.

A woman told police said she was trying on a bathing suit when she noticed a phone being held under the stall, the report said.

Police said there were only two other customers in the store when the incident occurred.

The woman confronted the customers, but they denied taking her picture, police said.

She then confronted Harper, who admitted to taking her picture while she changed, the report said.

Detectives said Harper admitted to taking pictures of three girls in the changing rooms on Wednesday.

He said he took two pictures of the woman in her bikini, but deleted them because he "got caught and was scared," the report said.

Harper told detectives he saw the woman picking out bikinis, thought she was attractive and wanted pictures of her, police said.

He was arrested and taken to the Washington County Detention Center, where he was being held Thursday without bond.