Secret Recordings Of Nude Women To Be Challenged By Lawyer

WOBURN, MA -- The attorney for Cambridge man accused of secretly recording a dozen women undressing, using a bathroom and engaging in sexual activity plans to challenge the legality of the search warrants issued for his client's electronics.

In Middlesex Superior Court on Tuesday, defense attorney John Swomley, representing 33-year-old Teddy J. Browar-Jarus, of Cambridge, asked for a June 13 motion hearing to question the technical expertise of the computer expert on whose analysis the search warrants were based on.

Browar-Jarus is free on personal recognizance after pleading not guilty to 26 counts of secretly recording an unsuspecting nude person, 11 counts of willful recording of oral communication, and one count of attempting to video record an unsuspecting person in a state of nudity.

Somerville police began an investigation into Browar-Jarus' alleged activities in 2015, after a former roommate of the defendant awoke to an unfamiliar beeping sound. When she approached the bookshelf in her bedroom she allegedly found a cell phone with its camera facing the bed with the name “Teddy” on the home screen, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan's Office.

Authorities executed a search warrant on the defendant’s bedroom where police allegedly found multiple recording devices, including a laptop computer and a camera disguised to look like a towel hook was used to hang towels or robes in a bathroom, prosecutors allege.

The hook camera had been installed in the bathrooms of two Somerville apartments to record women entering and exiting the shower, prosecutors allege. The police also located videos created through the use of smart phones and a laptop computer.

A forensic search of the defendant’s laptop resulted in the discovery of dozens of videos of women in a state of undress; some in the bathroom, others engaged in sexual activity, as well as several female roommates in various state of undress in their own bedrooms, according to prosecutors. Many videos also included the recording of conversations, prosecutors allege.

Somerville police were able to identify twelve women depicted in the videos who were recorded in Middlesex County, in addition to the reporting party. All women stated that they had not given permission for, nor did they have knowledge of, the video and audio recordings.

The videos were allegedly taken in the years 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015

Photo of Teddy J. Browar-Jarus by Lisa Redmond/lisa.redmond@patch.com.