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A 48-year-old Langley man allegedly caught taking pictures of a woman in a BCIT washroom Monday afternoon was held by students until officers arrived to arrest him, according to police.
Burnaby RCMP got a report at about 12:20 p.m. that a man was being detained by students in the NE1 building of the Burnaby campus.
The man had allegedly used a cellphone to capture images of a woman in a washroom there, according to police.
When the woman confronted the man, he had allegedly pushed her and tried to run away, but he was detained by other students until officers arrived.
The man now faces charges of voyeurism and assault.
“Burnaby RCMP continues to work closely with BCIT in this investigation,” stated a police press release Tuesday.
BCIT sent out a notification about the incident Monday evening.
The school said patrols were being stepped up in the NE1 building as a precautionary measure, and that BCIT was taking the incident “very seriously.”
The school came under fire in 2016 when it failed to reveal RCMP were investigating an earlier incident of voyeurism on campus.
Student Chieh-Sen Yang was arrested on Nov. 20, 2016 for secretly observing and recording men in a campus bathroom, but BCIT officials didn’t make the investigation public until months after he was charged.
Yang would eventually plead guilty to two counts of voyeurism.
