Erin Andrews
The FBI has arrested a suspect in the Erin Andrews hidden camera case. Michael David Barrett was apprehended at O’Hare airport in Chicago, Illinois.
He was tied to the crime via an email address used to offer criminally filmed footage of Andrews naked in her hotel room, which is a sick, perverted, gross invasion of privacy.
Michael David Barrett facing the judge
The FBI has failed to explain how he knew Andrews’ schedule so well, it enabled him to find her at various hotels, at the precise moments to commit these acts of perversion and nastiness, against the unsuspecting sportscaster.
Many believed it to be an inside job, someone who knew her ESPN schedule, as newspapers have stated the footage was secretly shot in several hotel rooms.
Voyeurism is a crime and so is stalking, particularly aggravated stalking. Both constitute felonies.
FBI: Man arrested in ESPN reporter nude video case
LOS ANGELES — A Chicago-area man accused of filming surreptitious nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews in a hotel room was arrested at Chicago's O'Hare airport Friday night, the FBI said.
Michael David Barrett faces federal charges of interstate stalking for taking the videos, posting the videos online and trying to sell them to celebrity Web site TMZ, the FBI said in a statement. He's scheduled to make an initial court appearance Saturday morning in U.S. District Court in Chicago.
The charges were filed in Los Angeles, where TMZ is based. Andrews is identified in the federal complaint as E.A.
Barrett, 48, was arrested after returning from a trip to Buffalo, N.Y., authorities said.
Seven of the eight videos posted online were taken through a modified door peephole while the 31-year-old Andrews was alone and undressed in hotel rooms in Nashville, Tenn., in September 2008. Investigators believe the eighth video was taken in a hotel in Milwaukee in July 2008.
Several TV networks and newspapers aired brief clips or printed screen grabs from a blurry five-minute video in July...
