A Bay Area pop culture writer and former curator of San Francisco\u2019s Cartoon Art Museum was arrested earlier this month after allegedly filming people inside his bathroom during a birthday party. <\/p>\n
Andrew Farago, 54, hosted a birthday party at his South Berkeley house on May 23 and allegedly used a cellphone to secretly record people using his bathroom, according to court records. <\/p>\n
Berkeley police confirmed that Farago was arrested June 3 on suspicion of invasion of privacy by using a hidden camera to secretly record someone under their clothing. <\/p>\n
During the party, a woman found a video showing Farago \u201csetting the phone up, concealing it with a towel, and aiming it to record people\u2019s genitalia as they used the restroom,\u201d Berkeley police said in court records. <\/p>\n
Farago \u201cmade admissions and also stated that he had deleted the videos\u201d from his phone and iCloud, according to Berkeley police. <\/p>\n
Farago allegedly emailed guests after the party, writing: \u201cI hid my phone in our bathroom for the purpose of spying on our guests, my closest friends in the world. I had never done anything like that before and don\u2019t know what possessed me to do it,\u201d according to court records. \u201cThis was an inexcusable violation of your privacy and our friendship and I am prepared to face whatever consequences will come from this tremendous lapse in judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n