Spy vs. Spy?

Department of Homeland Security’s surveillance of private emails credited with discovery of Border Patrol agent’s hidden camera voyeurism

Author

By Walter Mencken

Publish Date

Dec. 19, 2015

Armando Gonzalez, a government agent who somehow got the idea that it was okay for government agents to spy on people’s private business. (Photo taken via surveillance drone from one mile distant.)

Last week, former Border Patrol agent Armando Gonzalez was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for planting a hidden camera in the women’s restroom at a Chula Vista Border Patrol facility. The camera, which Gonzalez used to violate the privacy of female employees who used the restroom, was discovered when he made reference to it in an email sent from his personal account to a friend and fellow voyeur-cam enthusiast.

Reports lead investigator Jay Maninblack, “In a message dated January 7th, 2015, bpagonzales@gmail.com sent a message to peekabooty12@hotmail.com, which read in part, ‘CV ladies got them thongs all up in the booty crack, and I got the video-yo-yo on the down low-low-low.’ This led us to suspect Mr. Gonzalez was making illegal recordings of women at the Chula Vista facility. A Special Teams turnover of the facility proved our suspicion to be well-founded. Further, drone footage taken through Mr. Gonzalez’s bedroom window clearly shows him viewing the camera’s digital feed on this personal computer."