When the fun goes wrong. News article about something that happened a few years ago -
The owners of Flint Audio Video were arrested Friday and charged in an investigation of illegal sharing and accessing of customers’ nude photos, the state police said.
Gary W. Gagne, 58, and Daniel A. Anton, 35, both of Jamestown, were arrested at the Middletown store and charged with conspiracy and soliciting another to commit the crime of accessing a computer for fraudulent purposes. They were arraigned in District Court in Newport and released on $30,000 personal recognizance bond with orders to limit their internet use.
Flint Audio Video offers repair services for cellphones and computers, and when female customers brought their devices into the Middletown store, a store manager would search the files on the devices, take photos of nude images and share them with Gagne and Anton, the state police allege.
According to a state police affidavit, a female employee of Flint Audio Video first reported the crimes to the state police, and identified Anton and Gagne as having participated in the scheme.
She told them that Quintal was accessing nude images of female customers, then emailing the images to Anton and Gagne, according to the affidavit.
She told police that she started noticing Quintal “doing strange things,” like pushing aside a sales associate if an attractive female customer entered the store with a broken device, then going in a back office with the device.
When she was closing the store on May 28, she told the police, co-owner Anton called her and asked to check his email for him, she said. When she checked, she saw emails from Quintal with subject lines like, "Shhh." The emails had attachments of customers' nude images, she told the police.
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