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Report: 'Peeping Tom' Landlord in Chevy Chase Gets Probation
Dennis Alan Van Dusen will not be going to jail for recording video of tenants.
The Chevy Chase landlord who pleaded guilty in April to three peeping Tom misdemeanors will not face jail time," NBC Washington reported.
Instead, Dennis Alan Van Dusen received a three-year suspended sentence July 9 and will be on probation. He also will continue to receive psychiatric care, NBC Washington reported.
Van Dusen—a lawyer and high-tech entrepreneur, WUSA9 reported—rented three rooms of his Ridgewood Avenue, Chevy Chase, home to three women. In October, one of the women and her boyfriend discovered that what they had thought was a smoke alarm on the ceiling of her room was actually a hidden camera, The Washington Post reported.
Police found "'sexually/nude videos' of the three tenants and their boyfriends" on Van Dusen's computer, The Post reported.
Read more—including why the judge decided not to sentence Van Dusen to jail time—on NBC Washington's website.
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