Crime & Safety

Man Arrested After Taking Inappropriate Photo of Teen

Authorities say the man snapped a cell phone photo of a 15-year-old girl on April 20 while they were in the Rite Aid in New Brunswick.

The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office announced Wednesday that a bakery deliveryman was arrested and charged with secretly taking an inappropriate photo of a 15-year-old girl while she was shopping in the George Street Rite Aid.

Harold Williams, 60, of Eastampton, Burlington County, was arrested and charged on April 20 after allegedly following the girl into the store and angling his cell phone to take photos up her skirt, according to a release from the Prosecutor's Office.

He was spotted by a security guard, who called police around 12:30 p.m., and held by store staff until the police arrived.

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He faces charges of endangering the welfare of the child and invasion of privacy, and is jailed at the Middlesex County Adult Correction Center in North Brunswick on $75,000 bail.

Williams is a retired corrections officer with Mid-State Correctional Facility and currently works as a deliveryman with The Classic Dessert Co. of Eastampton, according to the Prosecutor's Office.

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According to the Prosecutor's Office, authorities suspect that Williams may have committed similar acts in other towns and requested anyone with information to call Investigator Andreea Capraru with the Prosecutor's Office at (732) 745-3600, or Det. William Coleman of the New Brunswick Police Department at (732) 745-5222.


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