press release <\/a>from the San Luis County District Attorney\u2019s Office. Prosecutors did not say how Combs\u2019 crimes were discovered or whether he was a member or an employee of the facility.<\/p>\nSan Luis Obispo County Dist. Atty. Dan Dow said that despite the \u201cdeeply disturbing\u201d allegations, his office was limited to charging Combs with misdemeanors. He said such a crime can only be upgraded to a felony under certain circumstances, such as if the victims were children or the suspect had prior convictions. <\/p>\n
Dow called on Californians to contact their state legislators to urge a change to state law to allow for harsher penalties for such a crime. <\/p>\n
\u201cSecretly recording women while they are nude inside tanning booths is a deeply disturbing violation of privacy, dignity, and personal security,\u201d Dow said in a statement. \u201cPeople using a gym or fitness center should never have to fear that they are being watched or recorded in one of their most private moments.\u201d<\/p>\n
Combs is accused of secretly using a device to view or record women while they were nude in tanning booths at the Arroyo Grande Planet Fitness several times from July through December last year. <\/p>\n
Prosecutors said there was evidence of Combs engaging in similar crimes earlier in 2025, but those incidents were outside the statute of limitations. <\/p>\n
Prosecutors urged any woman who used the tanning or red-light therapy rooms at the Arroyo Grande Planet Fitness during 2025 and has not yet spoken with investigators to contact Arroyo Grande Police Detective Brandon Earnest at (805) 473-5110 ext. 7021. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Luis Obispo County man has been charged with a slew of misdemeanors after prosecutors say he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153542,7,9,34230,8,723,28224,34119,153543,153541,9985,153540,346,153544,9295,7214,2131,153539],"class_list":["post-379665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-arroyo-grande-fitness-center","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-man","tag-california-news","tag-crime","tag-dan-dow","tag-dignity","tag-harsh-penalty","tag-kyle-combs","tag-misdemeanor","tag-nude-woman","tag-office","tag-prior-conviction","tag-privacy","tag-prosecutor","tag-suspect","tag-tanning-booth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}