Deputies with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station are investigating a viral video circulating on social media that has accumulated over 570,000 views, that shows a man accused of filming a person inside a dressing room at the Valencia Town Center Mall on Friday, according to officials.
Local law enforcement officers made their way to the Valencia Town Center at approximately 7 p.m. on Friday in response to a report of a man allegedly filming inside a dressing room, Sgt. Johnny Gillespie, a spokesman with the SCV Station, said on Saturday.
Information on when exactly the incident occurred remains unclear, he added, but “it’s currently under investigation,” he said.
According to the video on social media, the victim being filmed was reported to be an underaged girl, but Gillespie said there was no information confirming the gender of the victim or if they were a minor.
“An incident occurred when an alleged voyeur entered the women’s changing room in one of our stores,” said Valencia Town Center Marketing and Events Manager Monique Arakelian, in a prepared statement emailed to The Signal on Monday evening. “We regret this incident occurred, and we are grateful for the quick action taken by the mall’s security team and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.”
“This was an isolated incident,” she added in the statement, “While no one was injured, our thoughts and deepest concern are with those impacted. We are working closely with the authorities as they investigate this matter. We take the safety and security of our shoppers, employees and tenants very seriously.”
In a followup phone call on Monday evening, Deputy Gonzalez of the SCV Sheriff’s Station stated it was still an ongoing investigation and declined to answer additional questions regarding the incident, including whether anyone was arrested.
The video has accumulated over 570,000 views with 8,000 shares and thousands of comments across at least two social media pages on Instagram and has now reached other platforms such as “X.”
No additional information was available as of the publication of this story.
