Hurst Police say detectives are investigating at least two alleged incidents of invasive visual recording inside an Aeropostale fitting room.<\/p>\n
The first reported incident on April 24 involved a woman who told police she spotted a camera lens inside a black bag in a fitting room.<\/p>\n
NBC 5 does not identify victims of sexual offenses, but Liz Marin reached out to share her experience.<\/p>\n
Marin, 22, said she went shopping with her sister and after going inside a fitting room to try on some items, she said she noticed what looked like a camera lens.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could see a lens coming through the ripped hole on the bag,\u201d Marin said. \u201cThe first thing that came to my head was to exclaim for help.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marin said she immediately took out her phone and took photos of the black bag, which showed a camera lens visible through a mesh lining.<\/p>\n
Her sister Clarissa Marin, who was in the next fitting room, came over and said she took the camera, a power cord and a battery pack from the black bag and handed them to a Hurst Police officer who had arrived on scene outside North East Mall.<\/p>\n
The sisters then shared their experience on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, it\u2019s just to spread awareness to the young people out there,\u201d Clarissa Marin said.<\/p>\n
Awareness that Maddie Mayo said she is grateful for.<\/p>\n
Mayo went to Hurst police on Friday after seeing the Marin sisters\u2019 post on TikTok to report that she also noticed a black bag in a fitting room at the same Aeropostale location back on April 3.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had the same experience, but I didn\u2019t notice the camera, so I just thought it was a weird experience, but not anything crazy like what it actually is,\u201d Mayo told NBC-5.<\/p>\n
While no arrests have been made, Hurst Police confirmed detectives are early into an ongoing, and now evolving, investigation with at least two women coming forward.<\/p>\n
Aeropostale has not responded to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
Liz Marin said her sense of safety has been compromised after the incident, but says she feels speaking about her experience will help others.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am grateful that it was my sister and I that found the camera,\u201d Marin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hurst Police say detectives are investigating at least two alleged incidents of invasive visual recording inside an Aeropostale…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1231],"class_list":["post-275503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-hurst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}