Naples man accused of recording video of woman in shower at Bonita Bay

A shadowy figure holding a cellphone at the bathroom window was enough to cause a woman taking an afternoon shower in her Bonita Bay home to scream and scare off the intruder.

The figure that cast the shadow was eventually identified by the Lee County Sheriff's Office as Philipas Christos Batsios, 40, of Naples. Batsios was arrested Tuesday and faces charges of burglary and video voyeurism.

The woman said she was washing her hair inside a glass shower enclosure March 29 and was startled when she saw a cellphone pointed at her and the shadow of an arm in the window of her bathroom. The woman said the arm vanished when she screamed.

A sheriff's office report said the woman climbed into a tub to look out the window and saw a man running away. She told deputies that the man looked back and he had short facial hair, appeared "scruffy" and then got into a marked Pinch A Penny pool service vehicle and drove off.

The woman went next door, but the neighbors were away. She did find a cleaning ticket at their pool with the name "Phil" on the bottom.

The woman said that she and the neighbor contract with Pinch A Penny for pool servicing,

Service truck GPS and cellphone records from Pinch A Penny, confirmed Batsios was assigned to the Bonita Bay route that day.

Checking the GPS records detectives found that most of Batsios' stops at the Bonita Bay community were of short duration. However, a stop near the location of the incident was 23 minutes long, four times longer than the other stops, and  no other Pinch A Penny trucks were in the area during that time, the sheriff's report said.

Batsios told detectives he was in Naples all day of the incident.

The sheriff's office arrested Batsios on Tuesday. He is scheduled for arraignment June 6.

Craig Sharp, owner of the franchise Pinch A Penny store where Batsios works, said the nine-year employee will be on suspension until an investigation is complete.

"If he's guilty then he should be prosecuted," he said. However, he added, "this situation is still under investigation."

Sharp said the company conducts background checks on all workers. "We do a lot of research," he said. "We certainly don't condone this."

Sharp said his store had a service contract with the home where the incident happened as well as others in the gated community.

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