Being a Peeping Tom can be dangerous business.

The Associated Press reports that an an off-duty Secret Service agent fired a shot Sunday night at someone he susupected of videotaping his daughter through a window at their home at Mercer Island in the Seattle area.

AP, citing police, reported that the agent went into his backyard and identified himself, and when the person made a “furtive move”, the agent fired.

AP reported that the suspect ran off and it was unclear if the person was hit.

By Allan Lengel

Ex-FBI agent Ryan Seese’s Peeping Tom conviction may seem rather tame in comparison to the convictions of others he’ll be living with.

A Dauphin County, Pa. Judge Bernard L. Coates Jr. sentenced him Tuesday to 1 to 23 1/2 months in prison for Peeping Tom incidents at a Hershey, Pa. middle school and at a gym, The Patriot-News reported.

The former agent pleaded guilty in August to criminal trespass, invasion of privacy and disorderly conduct after he was busted for spying on two teens in May inside a girl’s bathroom during a concert at Hershey Middle School, the paper reported.

On Tuesday, he also pleaded guilty Tto hiding in a women’s gym in Hershey, Pa. in February, the paper reported.

He left the FBI in 2007 after he was convicted of a Peeping Tom incident at a woman’s bathroom at the University of Arizona, the paper reported.

The paper reported that Seese said he faced trauma after the death of his young son in 2005 and his divorce.

“I don’t know when my addictive behavior became out of control,” he told the judge, according to the paper.

A former FBI agent, who faces Peeping Tom charges relating to an incident at a middle school in Hershey, Pa., is now also facing public drunkenness charges, the Patriot News reported.

The recent troubles of Ryan James Seese, 36, of Hershey, first started in May when he was arrested for allegedly standing on a toilet in the girl’s bathroom at Hershey Middle School and peering at a girl in the next stall while a concert was being held at the school, the newspaper reported.

He was charged with criminal trespass, invasion of privacy and disorderly conduct, the paper reported.

Last Thursday, the Derry Township police charged him with public drunkenness around 3:30 a.m. on East Areba Avenue, the paper reported, adding that there were no other details available.

The paper, referring to court documents, wrote that Seese left the FBI in 2007 after getting caught in the women’s bathroom at the University of Arizona. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of public indecency, records show.

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It’s these little things in life — like this — that make you lose just a little more faith in mankind. Defendant Michael David Barrett may have saw this as a game, but ESPN and the FBI didn’t.  The FBI arrested him Friday at O’Hare Airport.

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By CAROLINE KYUNGAE SMITH, DAVE NEWBART AND DAN ROZEK
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CHICAGO – Before secretly taking nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews in at least two cities, Michael David Barrett allegedly called several hotels to find out where Andrews was staying and in one case, reserved the room next door to hers.

The 47-year-old Westmont man then altered the peepholes to Andrews’ room, so he could record videos of her as she undressed, the Federal Bureau of Investigation says.

Today, Barrett appeared in federal court and was ordered transferred to California, where interstate stalking charges were filed against him.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys scheduled a hearing Monday to determine whether Barrett would be freed on bond, as his attorney requested, or taken to California in custody.

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