ELBERTA, Utah County — A man was arrested last week and accused of placing his cellphone in a bathroom at a dairy farm to record a woman.
Drew Sparrow, 44, of Weston, Idaho, was arrested for investigation of voyeurism/recording.
On June 26, a woman entered the restroom at a dairy farm in Elberta when she noticed a large amount of paper towels near the toilet. The woman moved the paper towels to find an iPhone that was recording. She stopped the recording, which was close to 20 minutes long, and deleted the video, according to a police booking affidavit.
The woman put the phone in her pocket and was stopped by Sparrow, who asked her if she had his phone, and she said "no" and then asked for his name, the affidavit states.
On June 27, Sparrow called the Utah County Sheriff's Office because he tracked his phone's location to the sheriff's evidence and forensics building. On July 3, Sparrow spoke with a sheriff's deputy, asking, before the call ended, "What am I looking at? Fines, fees, whatever, jail time?" according to the affidavit.
A sheriff's deputy interviewed Sparrow on July 17. After being read his Miranda rights, Sparrow said he placed the phone in the bathroom with the hopes of seeing the woman whom he'd previously noticed at the dairy farm, the affidavit alleges.
