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Former Building Inspector Charged With Secret Bathroom Recordings

A Huntington Beach man was arrested Tuesday for planting cameras at a Rancho Palos Verdes city unisex employee restroom and a Starbucks, also in Rancho Palos Verdes, according to the Lomita Sheriff's Station.

Andrew James Jensen, 49, of Huntington Beach, was ordered to be held on $315,000 bail while awaiting arraignment Oct. 15 in a Torrance courtroom, court officials said.

He is charged with 89 misdemeanor counts of unauthorized invasion of privacy -- peeking -- for allegedly using a hidden camera to secretly record 63 women and 26 men between June 13 and July 5, according to prosecutors.

"On July 5, 2018, a hidden miniature camera was discovered by a Rancho Palos Verdes city staffer in a unisex employee restroom," according to a sheriff's department statement. "A police report was filed and Lomita Station initiated a criminal investigation.

"It was determined that Jensen, who was a Rancho Palos Verdes building inspector, allegedly secreted the camera in the restroom at City Hall, and at a nearby local business. He is currently being booked and held at Lomita Sheriff's Station in lieu of $450,000 bail."

Detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lomita Station arrested Jensen at about 2 p.m. Tuesday. He has remained behind bars since then, according to jail records.

If convicted as charged, Jensen could face a potential maximum term of more than 44 years in jail, according to the District Attorney's Office.

Anyone with additional information is asked to call Detective Terence Peterson at (310) 891- 3211. If you prefer to remain anonymous, you may call "L.A. Crime Stoppers" at 800-222-TIPS (8477), use your smartphone by downloading the "P3 MOBILE APP" on Google play or the App Store, or use the website http://lacrimestoppers.org.

City News Service contributed to this report.

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