GUILTY NH - Conor Makem for hiding camera in women's restroom, Rochester, 2013

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Makem waives arraignment, hires defense attorney

ROCHESTER – Former Rochester Times and Foster’s Daily Democrat reporter Conor Makem waived his arraignment on Monday on several Invasion of Privacy and Destruction of Evidence charges relating to his alleged placement of a camera in a women’s bathroom near the offices of Foster’s Rochester bureau.
Makem, who is free on $15,000 cash bail, will now await an arraignment early next month on 13 additional Invasion of Privacy counts stemming from his second arrest on Oct. 25, a week after his initial arrest in the case. The second arrest stemmed from additional alleged victims police say they found on Makem’s computers and other devices.


The Destruction of Evidence charge stems from his alleged tampering and dumping of the camera, which was reportedly installed in the women’s bathroom near a suite of offices that included the Foster’s bureau inside a section of Merchants Plaza.
The female victims listed in police affidavits were unknowingly videotaped “in various stages of undress” inside the bathroom.

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A city man who hid a camera in the ceiling of a women’s restroom has been accepted into the Step Down program run by the county’s Community Corrections Program.

Conor Makem, 46, pleaded guilty on May 30 to 19 counts of invasion of privacy and one count of falsifying physical evidence. He admitted to taking multiple pictures of at least six victims in a bathroom at Merchants Plaza in Rochester between July 1, 2012, and October of last year...

Makem was sentenced to serve 12 months at Strafford County House of Corrections and had completed almost five months when he was admitted on Monday into the Step Down program.

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