RI State Police: A/V Store Employees Stole Customers' Nude Photos

MIDDLETOWN, RI—Customers who brought cell phones, computers and other electronics to Flint Audio Video for repairs also unwittingly handed over their nude photos which the store employees copied and shared, state police allege. On June 14, a Rhode Island State Police task force arrested store manager George Quintal, of Middletown, for sharing customers' photos without their knowledge or consent. He was charged with accessing a computer for fraudulent purposes (three counts); and computer trespass (three counts). Flint's owners fired him within hours after the story went public.

On Friday, the state police returned to the Middletown store and arrested the warehouse manager, Terrance M. Roy, 46, of Seekonk, Mass. An hour later, they arrested another Flint employee, Geoffrey P. Preuit, 43, of Warwick, at his home.

Flint has stores at the Shaw's Plaza in Middletown and in South Kingstown. Both sites are involved in the scandal.

Preuit works at the Flint store in South Kingstown, but state police allege he conspired with Quintal. Last week, after a raid at Quintal's Middletown home, police said they found more than 2,000 photographs on his electronic devices. Quintal had collected them over a period of years, police allege.

Roy and Preuit have been charged with the same three offenses:

• Accessing a computer for fraudulent purposes
• Computer trespass
• Conspiracy

Like Quintal, they were released on personal recognizance and ordered not to have any contact with victims.

According to state police, without the customers' knowledge or consent, Roy or Preuit searched through the customers' electronic files, took photos of the nudes and shared them with Quintal and "possibly other" people. Also, the women customers' pictures were taken without their knowledge while they were in the store, "and those photos were then shared along with information about the digital device the customer was bringing in to be repaired."

Police say they have identified some of the victims.

"Any customers of Flint Audio Video who are concerned that their photographs and other electronic files may have been compromised should contact Detective Adam Houston at 401-921-8152," said Laura Meade Kirk, state police spokeswoman.

Terrance M. Roy, 46

Geoffrey P. Preuit, 43, of Warwick

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