Voyeur Filmed Naked Women In Tanning Bed

AUGUST 5--A Louisiana man who claimed that he “always wondered what it would be like” to be in the room while a woman was in a tanning bed was arrested yesterday on video voyeurism charges for allegedly using a tiny camera to film naked women tanning at a local health club.

Jonathan Willink, 39, was nabbed yesterday on four misdemeanor counts for surreptitiously filming a quartet of women at Anytime Fitness in Monroe. Willink, pictured in the mug shot at right, is being held in the Ouachita County jail in lieu of $20,000 bond.

Police learned of the hidden camera filming when an employee of a computer firm contacted them after Willink brought in his laptop for repairs. The worker reported discovering “several videos of women who were naked and lying in a tanning bed.” Additionally, as reported in a probable cause affidavit, in some of the videos, “Willink’s face is even seen as he adjust the camera.”

Confronted yesterday at his home, Willink told cops that, “he had recently obtained a small contained video recorder,” which he hid on four separate occasions in a tanning bed room at Anytime Fitness, where he is a member. The resulting videos recorded the women “as they undress and enter the tanning bed. The women are then seen as they exit the tanning bed and redress.”

According to cops, “Willink stated that he placed the hidden camera there because he had always wondered what it would be like to be in the tanning room while a woman was lying in the tanning bed.”

During a search yesterday of Willink’s Carter Lane home, cops “recovered the camera which Willink used” to film the female victims. “Investigators also recovered other items which are going to be reviewed further,” police added. (1 page)