{"id":188159,"date":"2026-04-07T11:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188159\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:18:30","slug":"news-12-connecticut-former-wesleyan-student-from-brooklyn-accused-of-secretly-recording-people-inside-campus-bathrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188159\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Connecticut | Former Wesleyan student from Brooklyn accused of secretly recording people inside campus bathrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former college student is facing dozens of charges after being accused of secretly recording people inside dormitory bathrooms at Wesleyan University in Middletown, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Schumann, 19, also known as Samuel \u201cVuVu,\u201d of Brooklyn, was arrested April 6 after police obtained a warrant charging him with 31 counts of voyeurism under Connecticut law.<\/p>\n<p>The charges stem from multiple incidents that occurred between September and October 2025 inside dormitories on the Wesleyan campus, where Schumann was a student at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said 19 female victims were identified, most of whom were students, and were secretly recorded inside campus bathrooms.<\/p>\n<p>University officials contacted police once the incidents came to light and cooperated with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives with the Middletown Police Special Investigations Unit conducted the case and worked for about two months to locate Schumann.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they coordinated his voluntary surrender following the issuance of the arrest warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Schumann was processed and released after posting a $100,000 surety bond.<\/p>\n<p>He is scheduled to appear in court April 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former college student is facing dozens of charges after being accused of secretly recording people inside dormitory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,75409,75408],"class_list":{"0":"post-188159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-voyeurism","15":"tag-wesleyan-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}