Man charged in tanning booth photo of nude woman

A Walworth County man has been charged with trying to secretly take a photo of a nude woman in the neighboring booth of a New Berlin tanning salon.

Jeremy Dawley, 33, of East Troy, faces a single count of capturing an intimate representation without consent, a felony that carries a possible 18-month prison term upon conviction.

According to the criminal complaint:

A woman emerged from her tanning bed at Lectric Beach in April, unclothed, and saw a cell phone on the floor, protruding from under the raised wall from the booth next door.

When she said, "Whoa," the hand holding the phone yanked it back.

The woman, a health care professional in her 40s, got dressed and called New Berlin police.

Investigators determined Dawley was in the neighboring booth. He first said his phone might have been on the floor, then said it wasn't. He denied taking pictures of anyone while in the tanning booth.

But detectives got a warrant to search Dawley's phone and found a photo of a nude woman, standing with her back to a floor-level camera inside what appeared to be booth 15 at Lectric Beach Tan.

The victim told detectives she was 90% sure she was the woman in the photo.

Dawley is scheduled to make his initial court appearance next month.