California man accused of recording nude women in tanning booths. Prosecutors call for harsher penalties - BERITAJA

A San Luis Obispo County man has been charged pinch a slew of misdemeanors aft prosecutors opportunity he secretly recorded nude women while they were successful tanning booths astatine a fittingness center, according to prosecutors.

Kyle Combs, 40, of Grover Beach is facing 12 misdemeanor counts of penetration of privateness pursuing an investigation into imaginable recordings astatine an Arroyo Grande fittingness center, according to a press merchandise from the San Luis County District Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors did not opportunity really Combs’ crimes were discovered aliases whether he was a personnel aliases an worker of the facility.

San Luis Obispo County Dist. Atty. Dan Dow said that contempt the “deeply disturbing” allegations, his agency was constricted to charging Combs pinch misdemeanors. He said specified a crime could only beryllium upgraded to a felony nether definite circumstances, specified arsenic if the victims were children aliases the fishy had anterior convictions.

Dow called connected Californians to interaction their authorities legislators to impulse a alteration to authorities rule to let for harsher penalties for specified a crime.

“Secretly signaling women while they are nude wrong tanning booths is simply a profoundly disturbing usurpation of privacy, dignity, and individual security,” Dow said successful a statement. “People utilizing a gym aliases fittingness halfway should ne'er person to fearfulness that they are being watched aliases recorded successful 1 of their about backstage moments.”

Combs is accused of secretly utilizing a instrumentality to position aliases grounds women while they were nude successful tanning booths astatine the Arroyo Grande Planet Fitness respective times from July done December past year.

Prosecutors said location was grounds of Combs engaging successful akin crimes earlier successful 2025, but those incidents were extracurricular the statute of limitations.

Prosecutors urged immoderate female who utilized the tanning aliases red-light therapy rooms astatine the Arroyo Grande Planet Fitness during 2025 and has not yet spoken pinch investigators to interaction Arroyo Grande Police Detective Brandon Earnest astatine (805) 473-5110 ext. 7021.