An Appleton man accused of secretly recording people in bathrooms at Lawrence University is facing trials in Outagamie County and Indiana.
Twenty-one-year-old Benjamine Wears was arrested in March, after a student at Trever Hall reported someone was sticking a cellphone under a door. Prosecutors say Wears ran away, but he was eventually caught.
They say he admitted recording men in bathroom stalls and in their dorms for “excitement” and the “thrill of it.” Police report finding about 65 videos from February and March in his phone.
He was scheduled to stand trial in Indiana in May, on a voyeurism charge, but it was postponed until October when he was arrested in Appleton.
Wears is expected to be back in court in Outagamie County in September.
