A convicted peeping Tom is demanding that the city of San Rafael return more than 700 pornographic videos and magazines that authorities seized during a 2001 investigation into his secret videotaping of a 45-year-old woman and 17-year-old girl in their apartments.In a lawsuit filed in March, Healdsburg resident Dennis Saunders, 59, argues that the collection of more than 500 videos and 250 magazines is legal and that the Police Department should give it back to him. He is not seeking the peeping Tom videos he recorded.
Saunders was released Aug. 25 after serving about five years in jail for 44 misdemeanor peeping Tom counts. He was arrested in November 2001 and convicted the next year, said his attorney, Jon Rankin, after he secretly videotaped the victims in their San Rafael apartment complex.
Saunders was the construction manager at the complex at the time. A co-worker figured out what he was doing and told the teenage girl's father, Rankin said. The videotapes were found in a toolbox that only Saunders had access to, the attorney said.
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