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'Peeping Tom' arrested for peering into South Tampa home: Police

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Updated  April 8, 2025 5:13pm EDT
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Peeping Tom suspect arrested

FOX 13's Ariel Plasencia reports.

The Brief

    • Tampa police say Kasey Pellage, 37, peered into the windows of a South Tampa home in late March.
    • Surveillance video helped identify Pellage as the suspect, according to TPD.
    • Pellage was arrested during an unrelated investigation on Sunday, April 6.

TAMPA, Fla. - Tampa police say they've arrested the man caught on camera peering into the windows of a South Tampa home.

"We had vigilant community members who saw the video that was shared by the media, and we received tips," TPD spokesperson Eddy Durkin said. 

The backstory:

TPD says cameras caught a man outside a home near S. Lois Ave and W. San Miguel St. on Saturday, March 29 and Sunday, March 30.

A woman named Emma lives at the home and told FOX 13 she had just installed cameras after noticing suspicious activity in her yard.

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Tampa police say they've caught a man accused of peering into windows of a South Tampa home. Image is courtesy of the Tampa Police Department. 

"And I was checking the camera, and he had just looked in my window, and then I was looking on the camera, and he was looking in my living room window," she said in an interview with FOX 13 last week.

TPD says detectives received an anonymous tip on Friday, April 4, which helped identify the suspect as Kasey Pellage, 37.

"So officers working a completely separate investigation, they saw him loitering around a construction site. When they went to interrogate him, he took off running, and then he refused to give his identification. So he was charged with that," said Durkin. "And while he was in jail is when they were able to positively identify him in the voyeurism case."

Mugshot of Kasey Pellage. Courtesy: Tampa Police Department.

Mugshot of Kasey Pellage. Courtesy: Tampa Police Department.

Investigators determined on Monday that Pellage was the man who had been looking into the South Tampa home in late March.

Pellage appeared in court for the first time Tuesday where attorneys for the state asked for a higher-than-standard bond due to "what seems to be a pattern of behavior that this defendant has exhibited with the victim."

The judge told the courtroom he considered the defendant’s past and present behavior and ultimately decided to set a higher bond at $6,000 for the two charges of loitering or prowling and voyeurism.

What they're saying:

"Mr. Pellage has lived in Hillsborough County for 20 years. His mother and father reside in Hernando County. He's currently employed working pressure washing, making $1,000 a month," Pellage’s defense team said Tuesday.

What's next:

Pellage faces charges of voyeurism, loitering or prowling and two counts of resisting an officer without violence.

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The Source: This story was written with information from the Tampa Police Department.

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