A photographer, who was celebrated as an informal lensman of American small town, has been arrested secretly for taking photographs of unsafe passers -by.
For years, William Robert Curle was known as the informal photographer of Mount Eri, North Carolina – the small city that served as an inspiration for the fictional community of Meberry Andy Griffith Show,
Curly was also with love “Meberry photographer” was dubbed by the public For his reputation to take amazing images of Mount Eri and city programs, shows and festivals.
However, 65 -year -old Karle is now facing criminal allegations on the allegations that they took improper portrait of women while documenting the city.
On October 7, 2024, Curly was informed to the police by an unknown woman as he was taking photos in Mount Eri’s Central Business District that day.
The unknown woman claimed that she caught Curly using a hidden camera phone to secretly capture her underwear’s upscart photos. According to Mount Eri Police, the camera phone in question was “either either near (Curly’s) camera bag” and pointed upwards “so it was capturing that approach.”
“According to the information we have at this point, he was taking improper images,” Mount Eri Police chief Dell Watson explains.
The police chief says the photographs targeted women “who were unknown and without their consent.”
Curly was arrested the next day on a count of hooliganism at home and was later released on a safe bond of $ 10,000 in the afternoon in the afternoon. From that day, in addition to secret peeping fees have been added.
‘Some things you don’t expect right now’
According to a report by Mount ventilated news On Wednesday, 14 separate cases are pending for Curly with a total of 32 allegations. He has been accused with 16 counts of 16 hooligans and 16 counting of misconduct is secretly peeping.
In two cases, they are charged with two cases of each type, which brings the total current count to 32. This number may increase and more victims should come forward to Mount Eri Police. The presence of his next scheduled court is March 3.
Mount Eri Police Chief Watson called the allegations against Curly “disappointing” and told Mount ventilated news He was in the essence of Karle, “Mr. Mount Eri. ,
“Some things that you don’t expect right now,” Watson says.
As Independent, Curly moved to Mount Eri in 2018 and became a nutritious member of the city to take pictures of all the programs, shows, festivals and parades in the city. In 2023, Curly was also given the first Agora prize of Mount Erry, for the contribution to the community going to “up and beyond”, a key for the city was found, and it was “North Carolina Main Street Champion” The name was given.
The last public photos of Curly posted on Facebook a day before informing the police showed a food truck festival in Mount Eri.
Secret tableaux are charged as a rape when the culprit is just looking at; It becomes a hooliganism when one uses “secretly or sarpititatively uses any device to create a photographic image of another person or through the clothes worn by him or to see his body, or his Through the undergarments worn by the other person, without their consent.
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