COPS: MAN TOOK PHOTO UP TEEN’S SKIRT

Newsday/Andrew Strickler

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Mauricio Rodriguez, a 28 year old man who took photos up the skirt of a 14 year old girl at thernSmith Haven Mall in Lake Grove, was arrested after the girl's aunt snatched the cell-phone camerarnout of his hand. The girl and her aunt were shopping at Payless ShoeSource when Rodriguez, ofrnBrentwood, approached the girl as she looked at a rack of shoes. He got on his knees and pretendedrnto look at shores on a bottom shelf while he took a picture up her skirt with a cell phone camera.rnThe aunt heard the shutter go off, grabbed the phone and yelled for help. Rodriguez was arrestedrnand charged with unlawful surveillance, a class E felony carrying a maximum sentence of four years,rnand misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child.

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(Lake Grove, New York)

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