RI State Police Arrest 4th Flint A/V Employee In Nude Pic Scandal

WAKEFIELD, RI — Another sales associate at Flint Audio Video has been arrested and charged with passing around nude photos found on customers’ cell phones, computers and other electronic devices. State police at 6:10 a.m Thursday arrested Adam M. Jilling, 35, of West Warwick at his home. Members of the Rhode Island State Police Computer Crimes Unit took him into custody. He is charged with:

• Soliciting another to commit a crime (access to a computer for fraudulent purposes)
• Conspiracy

He was arraigned in Newport District Court and released on $20,000 personal recognizance with a special bail condition: no internet use.

He worked at both Flint Audio Video locations: 77 East Main Road, Middletown, and 35 South County Way, Unit D1, South Kingstown.

The employees got a look at the nude photos because customers brought cell phones, computers and other devices to the store for repairs and unwittingly handed over all their digital files. The nudes were shared among employees and possibly others, state police said.

"An investigation by members of the State Police Computer Crimes unit showed that Mr. Jilling allegedly solicited George Quintal, a store manager at Flint Audio Video in Middletown, to illegally access and share nude images found on customers’ cell phones, computers and other electronic devices," state police said.

On June 14, a Rhode Island State Police task force arrested Quintal, 34, 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.

Last 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. 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:
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• 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.

Anyone who may be a victim should contact Det. Adam Houston at 401-921-8152, state police said.

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The Flint A/V Middletown store at the Shaw's Plaza/ Staff Photo Margo Sullivan