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LOGAN — An employee of a gym was arrested Monday evening after police say he climbed on top of a chair and a mini-fridge to record a customer as she undressed in a tanning booth, according to a police affidavit.
Tyson Wade Hadfield, 31, was arrested on suspicion of voyeurism, according to Cache County Jail records. Utah court records last listed Hadfield as a Millville, Cache County, resident.
Officers were dispatched to Planet Fitness, 981 S. Main Street, after the company’s staff reported that one of its employees had improperly recorded a customer, according to Logan Police Assistant Chief Jeff Simmons.
“(The customer) reported it to the management of Planet Fitness, and Planet Fitness took it very seriously, investigated the matter, found out it was one of the male employees, and he confessed to management. At that point, management called us to come on in,” he said.
Simmons didn’t know when the allegation was reported to the company’s staff, but the affidavit states Hadfield was arrested shortly before 7:30 p.m.
According to the police affidavit, the customer was a 19-year-old woman who said she could see she was being recorded while undressing inside a tanning booth.
The woman “claimed she had witnessed an unknown individual holding a phone over the gap between the tanning booth wall and ceiling,” the affidavit stated. Simmons said management determined that area was only accessible by employees. The document stated only one employee was on duty at the time, which was Hadfield.
Hadfield told management he had recorded the woman while she was naked from the waist up and also showed police a chair and mini-fridge he had used to “prop himself high enough to gain access to the gap between the wall and ceiling,” police wrote in the affidavit.
A person who answered the phone at the Planet Fitness location Tuesday declined to comment on the incident.
It wasn’t clear if Hadfield had retained a legal representative in the case. Court records show Hadfield pleaded guilty in 2011 to threat/use of a dangerous weapon in a fight, a class A misdemeanor, after he was initially charged with aggravated assault, a third-degree felony. It was later amended to a class C misdemeanor in 2014.
