Florida man allegedly recorded girls in church bathroom with hidden camera, arrested on voyeurism charges

An "overseer" astatine a Fruitland Park, Florida, religion was arrested connected video voyeurism charges aft images from the church's bath and different country were recovered connected the suspect's enactment laptop, according to the Lake County Sheriff's Office.

Authorities arrested 59-year-old Charles Barton Lucas connected Friday aft the IT manager astatine RoMac Building Supply contacted the Leesburg Police Department aft uncovering a Google Drive folder afloat of inappropriate images of teen girls and big women. A connection from RoMac confirmed that Lucas was nary longer employed astatine the institution pursuing the incident.

"The worldly was discovered by our squad during a regular institution process and was instantly reported to instrumentality enforcement. We person cooperated afloat with the authorities from the outset and volition proceed to bash so. Mr. Lucas is nary longer employed by RoMac," the connection work successful part.

A spokesperson for the Lake County Sheriff's Office said successful a connection that investigators recovered much videos of what appeared to beryllium teen girls changing wrong a religion bathroom. Further probe determined that the videos came from a hidden camera installed successful 1 of the church's changing rooms and bathrooms.

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Charles Barton Lucas was arrested connected video voyeurism charges connected June 19, 2026. (Lake County Sheriff's Department)

The cameras were nary longer contiguous erstwhile the Lake County Sheriff's Office went backmost to inspect the bathroom.

Lucas was arrested connected Friday evening and taken to Lake County Jail, but was released connected a $25,000 enslaved connected Saturday afternoon, according to the sheriff's office.

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Authorities recovered that Lucas had a Google Drive folder afloat of inappropriate videos taken successful the church's bath connected his enactment computer. (Google Earth)

An apprehension affidavit from the sheriff's bureau said Lucas was listed arsenic an "Overseer" astatine Fruitland Park's Heritage Community Church. The religion released a connection saying that they were "praying for [Lucas] and his family" amid the investigation, but aboriginal issued a follow-up connection highlighting their concerns for those impacted.

"Our superior interest is for immoderate individuals oregon families who whitethorn person been impacted by these allegations. We admit the seriousness of situations similar this and the heavy hurt, confusion, and symptom they tin cause," the religion said successful portion of a connection to FOX35 Orlando.

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"Heritage Community Church does not condone behaviour that harms others oregon is inconsistent with our biblical values. We are afloat cooperating with instrumentality enforcement and immoderate different due authorities and volition proceed to bash truthful passim this process. While we await further information, Heritage Community Church is committed to being open, honest, and transparent with our religion household regarding accusation that we are capable to share" the connection continued.

The probe remains ongoing and Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Lake County Sheriff's Office for further comment.