BUFFALO TWP — A Butler man is accused of using a webcam to videotape a friend changing clothes without the friend's permission.

Township police last week charged 29-year-old Derek Krallman with four misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy.

Police said Krallman on Jan. 19 secretly set up the laptop computer video camera in the bedroom of a woman, the alleged victim, at her home.

But the woman's child discovered the spy camera set up the next day.

“The laptop was located beside her bed,” according to court documents, “and the cam was located on her dresser directed at an area where the victim would change clothes.”

The woman told investigators that she and Krallman were “just friends” and they were never involved in any other relationship.

She acknowledged that she allowed him in her house Jan. 19 but she knew nothing about the webcam.

A preliminary hearing in the case is set for Feb. 14 at the office of District Judge Sue Haggerty in Saxonburg.

A full story appears in the Butler Eagle.