Chicago area resident Michael David Barrett was arrested Friday night at O’Hare airport as he arrived on a flight from Buffalo. He’s charged with interstate stalking and accused of taking the hotel room peephole videos of a nekkid Erin Andrews that surfaced last year.
Barret was tracked down through the emails he sent to TMZ when he tried to sell them the videos. FBI agents found that he had followed Andrews to Nashville in September of 2008 and called tons of area hotels to find out where she was staying, then requested a room next to her. I can’t believe that whatever numb nuts was working at the hotel was like, “Yes, obviously obsessed random guy on the phone trying to track down a celebrity, she’s staying in room number blahblah. Sure you can have the room right next to her!”
Barret also stayed in a hotel room next to Andrews in Milwaukee in July of 2007. FBI agents found that the peephole of that hotel room had also been rigged to record video. Creepy!
He’s scheduled to appear in court later today and could get up to 5 years in Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison if convicted.
I wonder if he actually drilled a whole in the wall, and if he did, why know one heard him or bothered to report it.
this case is disgusting. i wish he could be flogged in a public square.
I completely agree. I feel terrible for her, it’s such a violation.
IT TOOK THEM LONG ENOUGH TO NAIL THIS CREEP!!
I can’t wait to use my peephole reversing technology the next time I stay at a posh hotel. Thanks to Michael Barrett for making millions of us fetish freaks realize this was possible. Awesome work, dude.
I think that it is an odd double standard, that Britney and Paris and Vanessa and all the other “upskirt” and other Pussyrazzi victims don’t share the same reverence as Erin Andrews. All you guys taking picts of their HOOHAs are the same as the D.B. that violated E.A.’s privacy.