(KOMO) - Newly released videos show an service worker admit to placing two hidden cameras in a warehouse bathroom at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Newly released videos show a service worker admitting to placing two hidden cameras in a warehouse bathroom at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
Binh Quoc Hoang, 31, is charged with four counts of voyeurism in the first degree, according to charges filed in King County Superior Court. Hoang was arrested on a warrant for the charges in August and has since bailed out of jail.
The investigation began in April 2025 when an employee at a private food service warehouse at Sea-Tac had found a hidden camera inside a clock in a bathroom. The employee removed the clock from the wall and located a storage drive attached to it. The employee alerted managers, who then called police.
When Port of Seattle police responded, they noted the clock had a small camera in the "1" of the number "10" on the clock face.
A manager at the warehouse connected the camera to a computer and saw the first file contained a video of the person placing the clock in the bathroom, who he identified as Hoang.
Detectives questioned Hoang about the camera, and he quickly admitted to placing the camera in the bathroom, though he claimed he wanted to find out who had been leaving a mess.
"I wanted to catch the person so I could tell the supervisor," Hoang told detectives in body camera video obtained by KOMO News.
When detectives pressed Hoang about what he hoped to record on the camera, he admitted he is "a huge pervert" and said he identified with a character on the TV series "Family Guy".
"If you know Quagmire [the Family Guy character] and what he does - he's just a cartoon character on a show - if you know what kind of person he is, that's the person I am," Hoang said in the interview. "I just like to do crazy sexual things."
Hoang then told police he maintained significant catalogs of pornography, including hidden camera videos.
"Wouldn't it be nice to catch anything on my own?" he said. "Watching other people, it's like there's no thrill to it. Then it's more exciting and heart-racing if I get it on my own. I felt really good to get it for the first time because it's my video, nobody else's."
Police estimated Hoang's cameras recorded at least 23 victims and may have been used hundreds of times.
Earlier this year, a man was sentenced to four years in prison for placing hidden cameras in a workplace bathroom in Seattle.
Marcelo Vargas-Fernandez hid cameras on the Expedia headquarters campus in 2023 and 2024.
In both cases, police credit victims with noticing the cameras and alerting supervisors.
