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Philadelphia Man Arrested for Installing Hidden Cameras in Ocean City Boardwalk Bathrooms

Perkins is awaiting extradition in Pennsylvania on charges of invasion of privacy, child endangerment.

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Overview

  • Investigators were alerted on June 12 after a woman discovered a covert camera in an Ocean City boardwalk restroom and reported it to police.
  • Subsequent searches uncovered concealed recording devices in bathrooms at 6th, 10th and 11th streets along the boardwalk.
  • A task force comprising Ocean City Police, Philadelphia Police special victims detectives, Homeland Security agents and a Pennsylvania attorney general K9 unit built the case.
  • Search warrants executed on Perkins’s home and vehicle in the 4200 block of Glenview Street yielded further evidence.
  • Perkins was arrested in Tacony on June 20 and is now detained in Pennsylvania pending extradition.