Police Seek Suspect In Peeping Tom Incident

Sheriff’s deputies are searching for a Peeping Tom who spied on a woman while she used a restroom at a Valley steak house and lounge early Sunday and then scuffled with a bartender.

Witnesses to the incident at A Cut Above, 11723 E. Sprague, told deputies a man stood on top of a toilet in the women’s restroom to peer into an adjacent stall at the woman.

Another woman noticed the man and complained to the bartender.

When the bartender knocked on the stall door and told the man he was in the wrong restroom, he told her in a woman’s voice that he’d just be a minute, said David Reagan, Sheriff’s Department spokesman.

Moments later, the man emerged from the stall, punched the bartender in the stomach and shoved her into the wall, Reagan said. The bartender grabbed onto the man’s shirt as he ran by and the two stumbled into the bar.

During the skirmish, the man, who was now yelling loudly, hit the bartender on the head and squirmed out of the shirt, Reagan said. He ran out of the bar and left in a dark-colored, mid-sized car, believed to be a gray 1984 Oldsmobile Cutlass.

The bartender was not seriously injured.

A couple of customers chased the man into the parking lot and got a partial license plate number, which deputies did not release.

The car disappeared eastbound on Sprague Avenue. The man was described as white, 5-foot-7 and 170 pounds. He was mostly bald with brown or blond hair stubble on the back of his head, and wearing white sneakers and blue jeans.

Deputies collected the man’s shirt as evidence. He faces fourth-degree assault and trespassing charges, Reagan said.

, DataTimes