ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. — An O'Fallon, Missouri, man is accused of secretly recording up hundreds of women's skirts and dresses as they were shopping, the city's police department said.
32-year-old Kevin Clayton was charged with two felony counts of invasion of privacy on Monday after an incident at an O'Fallon Dollar Tree.
According to court documents, multiple women at the department store on June 2 witnessed Clayton place a basket with a phone, which was recording, underneath women's skirts and dresses.
One of the victims said she was squatting down to view an item on a lower shelf when she saw the basket with a phone between her legs, court documents said. She gave police a description of Clayton and provided a Missouri license plate that was registered to him.
"She immediately called us and gave us a very detailed description. And that's what allowed us to move in so quickly and get him in custody. That way, we can get him off the street, and this doesn't happen in O'Fallon again," said Sgt. Bryan Harr, spokesman for the O'Fallon Police Department.
Police pulled over Clayton's vehicle; his phone and the clothing he was wearing matched the witnesses' descriptions.
Kaman Truong shops at the Dollar Tree in O'Fallon. She was shocked to hear the allegations against Clayton.
"I just think that's absolutely vile. It's insane. You wouldn't think something like that would happen, especially in a place that is so populated," the O'Fallon resident said.
Clayton admitted in an interview with police that he recorded inappropriate videos of two women inside the department store, adding that he "does not do this often and had deleted the videos from his phone," according to court documents.
Clayton gave police permission to go through his phone and police found his deleted folder, which contained more than 200 videos of numerous victims, including the two victims on June 2, the probable cause statement said.
"Not knowing how old they all are. Like, I'm young personally, and I don't know if he victimizes just older women, or younger women, or even girls. It's just insane. It's absolutely sickening," Truong said.
Harr said there could be hundreds more victims. "It's a sad reality that we have to worry about that. It looks like he has done this more than once for sure."
Six months ago, Clayton was sentenced to five years of probation for a similar crime at a Dollar General in Lake St. Louis in 2021. He was charged with invasion of privacy and pleaded guilty in January 2024. A search of his phone at that time found 39 videos and thousands of photographs of women.
Part of Clayton's sentence required him to stay out of Dollar General.
Truong thinks that's why he moved on to Dollar Tree to victimize more women.
"It makes me a little on edge now knowing that something like this could happen and knowing that people are that disgusting and vile. It irritates me, it really does," she said.
Clayton is being held at the St. Charles County Jail on a $20,000 bond, with no 10% allowed. If he's released on bond, a judge has ordered him to wear a GPS monitor under house arrest and have no contact with the women in his videos.
The St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney has requested to revoke Clayton's probation from the 2021 case.
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