Man charged, accused of using ladder to film neighbors
By Matthew Keck
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NEW ALBANY, Indiana (WLKY) — A New Albany man is facing charges after police say he was secretly filming his neighbors.
Nick Pledger was arrested and charged with felony voyeurism.
A woman told police she saw a cellphone pointed at her while she was in her bathroom on the second floor on Sept. 23. The woman then ran outside and found a neighbor, who said she saw a man running away with a ladder.
On Oct. 16, police were called to another home about a man carrying a ladder and looking into neighbors’ homes. Court records say this home was a block away from the one targeted on Sept. 23.
One day after, on Oct. 17, a home a block away from the second house involved, a man was reportedly looking into another resident’s home and using a ladder to do so.
The incidents on Oct. 16 and 17 captured the man walking through residents’ yards on surveillance cameras.
After collecting evidence and a description of the suspect, police identified the man as Pledger.
Police arrested Pledger on Oct. 22. Court records say they confiscated a phone that matched the description provided by neighbors and Pledger was wearing the same shoes seen in surveillance footage.
Court documents also say that Pledger was charged with 20 counts of felony voyeurism in Vigo County, Indiana, in an investigation between 2014 and 2016.
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