A 52-year-old Centuria man was arrested Jan. 29 on suspicion of using a camera, a VCR and a one-way mirror to invade the privacy of others.

David Jenderny was arrested after police officers armed with a search warrant searched a home he owns at 121 Michigan Ave. in Centuria.

According to the arrest report, the officers found a one-way mirror installed beneath a sink area in a bathroom, with a small open space behind the mirror large enough for a small camera.

Holes in the floor of the cabinet directly below the mirror had no pipes through them, according to the arrest report.

The officers reportedly also found a cable behind a television in the living room area that ran to the basement through a hole in the floor.

A VCR with a blank cassette in it was on a stand. It is not clear from the arrest report where the VCR was.

While searching the basement one of the officers reportedly “located a cable running from the area of the bathroom down through the flooring across the ceiling of the basement and going back up through the floor to the living room area. This cable was cut at one end. There were many VHS tapes that were originally blank but had recordings on them with labels with the title(s) of movies. A female living in the residence said she had seen a camera behind the mirror and cables beneath the sink (earlier that day).”

An officer interviewed Jenderny at the scene.

According to the arrest report, “Jenderny admitted to installing a one-way mirror in the bathroom, putting a camera behind the mirror and watching people when they were in the bathroom to see what sort of activities they were (engaged in). ... He said it was to observe possible drug activity, since at times more than one person would go into the bathroom at one time.”

The camera was found in the living room.

Bar melee

A “large fight” at a Luck area bar last weekend resulted in the arrest of only one person.

The melee involved a large busload of people at JJ’s Club 35 bar, about a mile south of Luck, for a 21st birthday party of one of the partiers.

According to one witness, at least five fights were in progress when police were summoned.

The arrest report for 25-year-old Shafer, Minn., area resident Steven McChesney stated that the bar suffered a large amount of damage.

“Tables and chairs in the bar were tipped and thrown,” the report stated. “A door window had been busted out and broken.”

The bus driver, who was sober, told officers McChesney was very disruptive in the bar.

One man told a responding officer that a man closely matching McChesney’s description punched him.

McChesney was arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct, battery and a “failure to pay” warrant related to a criminal damage to property charge in Polk County from 2006.

— From the Polk County Sheriff’s Department