HIALEAH, Fla. \u2014 A woman mulling a switch from AT&T to Verizon ended up the victim of an intimate crime after visiting the latter\u2019s retailer in Hialeah on Thursday afternoon, according to police.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Noel Guerra Vaquer, the manager of the Verizon store at 7925 Hialeah Gardens Blvd., AirDropped videos of the woman having sex with her partner from her iPhone to his personal phone under the guise of \u201cassisting with the process of setting up potential service.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said Guerra, 35, of Hialeah Gardens, had claimed he needed to look at her AT&T bill as she sought a quote at around 3:45 p.m. <\/p>\n
A Hialeah Police Department arrest report states that the woman \u201crealized that something was wrong after leaving the store when she observed a notification on her phone indicating that an AirDrop transfer had been successfully completed,\u201c listing the recipient as \u201cNoel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said \u201cthe notification included a thumbnail image showing explicit content of herself.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the report, officers interviewed two Verizon employees, who confirmed that employees generally have no reason to access a customer\u2019s photo gallery.<\/p>\n
Authorities said Guerra claimed that the AirDrop transfer was a \u201cmistake\u201d and didn\u2019t realize it happened until the victim left the store.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt should be noted that the process of transferring images through Apple AirDrop requires a user to select the specific photos or videos being transferred, at which point thumbnail previews of the selected images appear on the device screen,\u201d police wrote. \u201cThe transfer must then be directed to a specific receiving device and accepted in order for the airdrop transfer to be completed.\u201d<\/p>\n
That led investigators to conclude that the transfer was \u201cdeliberate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police arrested Guerra, a Cuban national, on a charge of offenses against computer users as an unauthorized alien and took him to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.<\/p>\n
He appeared in court on Friday morning, where a judge found probable cause for the charge, ordering he be held on a $2,500 bond.<\/p>\n