Serial voyeurism suspect charged in Uinta and Sweetwater.
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EVANSTON — Ryan Flaten, 28, pleaded not guilty to voyeurism at his arraignment in Third District Court, Tuesday in Evanston.
According to the Office of the Clerk of District Court Thursday morning, a pre-trial conference had been set for April 10 at 3 p.m., and a trial had been set for June 19. The trial is projected to be a two-day trial.
Flaten was arrested in Lyman on Nov. 17, on the felony charge of voyeurism due to an incident at the Maverik in Lyman. He had allegedly placed a hidden video camera in the public restroom of the store. Alert store employees had discovered the camera and contacted the Lyman Police Department, which under the direction of Police Chief Tom Clark, conducted the investigation.
Law officers searched Flaten’s residence and vehicle following the execution of a search warrant, “where a large amount of additional evidence was collected by Lyman Police officers,” the original release stated.
This above arraignment comes on the heels of the release by the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office last Friday in which Sweetwater County Sheriff Mike Lowell said Flaten was behind bars due to multiple counts of felony voyeurism. In the incident in Sweetwater County Flaten was charged with 16 counts of Felony Voyeurism and bond was set at a $25,000 cash or surety bond.
According to Lovell, officers of the Lyman Police Department “recovered video devices (following the execution of the search warrant at Flaten’s residence) that contained footage of locations in Sweetwater County. Lyman officers contacted Sergeant Rich Fischer of the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office, who launched an investigation of his own.”
Fischer arrested Flaten at his latest residence in Green River Friday morning, Jan. 26.
A preliminary hearing on the Sweetwater cases had been set for Jan. 31, in Circuit Court in Green River.
Fischer’s investigation has also tied Flaten to video cameras hidden a variety of places. The Sweetwater County investigation has so far connected Flaten to video cameras hidden in a changing room at the Goodwill Store on Dewar Drive in Rock Springs, a restroom at Solvay Chemicals, west of Green River, and video footage of women inside several residences in Green River. Lowell said Tuesday that all victims that appear in the footage at the Goodwill Store, Solvay Chemicals, and the residences in Green River have been identified and interviewed.
