A former food services contract worker for the Scottsdale Unified School District who is facing felony charges after he was accused of surreptitiously videotaping up girls' skirts has skipped bail and is a wanted man.

Arrest in videotaping incident came swiftly

Worker indicted over videotaping girls in school

Ricardo Espinoza-Valdez, 28, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was charged by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office on Nov. 16 in connection with surreptitious and attempted surreptitious videotaping of girls while on the Saguaro High School campus.

He failed to show up for his trial over the summer, and has been on the lam for four months, according to Maricopa County Superior Court documents.

Espinoza-Valdez was a temporary worker for ExecuTemps in Phoenix and had acquired his job using fake identification and documentation, according to information from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

According to court documents, student at Saguaro High School told school officials she noticed Espinoza-Valdez filming up girls' skirts by using a small camera inside a box while he worked at a food counter in the school's courtyard.

  

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