Waukesha Swim Instructor Pleads Guilty To Recording Employees

WAUKESHA, WI — A 22-year-old man charged with secretly recording people changing at a swimming school in Waukesha pleaded on Friday, according to online court records.

Jacob Masbruch was charged with five counts of capturing an intimate representation, including three involving girls younger than 18. He pleaded guilty on Friday to two charges of capturing an intimate representation, one charge included a victim under 18 in Waukesha County Circuit Court. The other three charges were dismissed and read in, the records said.

Masbruch will be sentenced on August 23.

In February 2020, police were called after a 17-year-old swim instructor discovered a camera hidden in a Kleenex box. The box was discovered in the employee locker room and she noticed a hole in the box sitting on the shelf, according to the criminal complaint.

She alerted another employee who then went into the room and told her he destroyed the camera. He then fled the business before police arrived, the complaint said.

This employee was Masbruch who was also a swimming instructor, the complaint said.

Police said Masbruch was located by the West Milwaukee Police and turned over to the Waukesha Police. A search warrant was executed on his home in search of the camera.

Masbruch confessed that he used his personal phone as a camera, the complaint said.

Waukesha police said that the camera was only ever used in the employee changing room. This investigation said no clients of Swimtastic were the subject of this crime, the complaint said.