Yosemite Worker Secretly Tries Filming National Park Employee In The Shower, Arrested

Yosemite National Park -- A man working at Yosemite National Park is accused of trying to take the video of a law enforcement officer while she was in the shower.

Michael Patrick Raridan, a maintenance worker in the White Wolf area of Yosemite, was charged Tuesday in connection with the incident.

Officials identified the victim as a National Park Service employee who was a “commissioned federal law enforcement officer,” according to the Fresno Bee. Raridan attempted to film the NPS employee inside a community shower during the evening hours of July 4.

The law enforcement official told officials that she looked up while inside the bathroom and saw a portion of an iPhone pointed at her from the side of the shower. The woman then yelled and grabbed a towel.

After putting her clothes on, the woman chased after the culprit with the help of her dog. They search the grounds of the park and found Raridan hiding under an NPS vehicle.

The NPS employee confronted the man and asked him about the violating incident, according to a police report.

“The suspect told (her) ‘he just couldn’t help himself,’” an NPS officer said in the report.

Federal prosecutors charged the man Tuesday with one count of filming with intent to violate a person’s privacy and one count of committing an obscene act to breach the peace.

The two charges against Raridan are both misdemeanors and could land him in prison for a year, according to Mercury News.

Court records reportedly showed that Raridan did not enter a plea deal.

In an unrelated incident, a former nurse at a Tennessee high school was arrested in May 2021 after he was found to have more than 700 images of minor girls in a bathroom on his devices. Leon B. Hensley, 40, was accused of taking photos of girls, aged between 12 and 17, with a camera hidden inside the private student bathroom of the nurse's station at North Eash High School (NEHS), Clarksville. The young girls were captured either in "various stages of undress" or "utilizing bathroom facilities," authorities said.