Police are on the look-out for a peeping tom in Maumelle. Police say officers responded to three calls within an hour last week of a man looking through windows and into people's homes at night. The three homes face the Maumelle Country Club golf course.
"I am afraid, I’m afraid," says Sharon Pascoe who caught someone watching her at home, the first time in January. "I looked over there, and I thought I saw someone move back and I thought, 'is that a person,'" explains Pascoe.
She got up and walked to the back door and saw a man looking in. "Right through the door looking right at me. I was face to face, looking at him. [I was] just shocked...there's a man. I grabbed the phone and called 911 immediately [and said] there is a man on my patio, he's looking right at me!” That's when the man took off.
Pascoe says it happened again last Tuesday at 1:00am; her husband heard something, got up and chased a man off. “He had raised up or something and saw somebody out there and wondered who it was. He came around the corner and was face to face with the guy,” explains Pascoe.
Within an hour, police responded to two other calls in the neighborhood, all reporting the same thing, a man is looking through a window into homes.
“There are a lot of young mothers who live around here in our neighborhood that are young and sweet and they don't think about this at all. Now they have to protect their children and that makes me very nervous because you don't know what this guy is thinking, is it going to escalate. What's he going to do?”
Because of the fear that question raises, Pascoe has a gun.
Tuesday, police did use a dog to track the man, but didn’t find anything. Right now, police tell us the department has increased patrols at night.
“We have contingency plans, and since obviously he's not using the roadways will allow us to maneuver and see and get around in the dark,” says Chief Sam Williams, Maumelle Police Department.
Williams urges anyone who sees anything suspicious to call 911. "We will be in that area, it won't take long to get there," says Williams.
Chief Williams tells us three reports were filed in January and three last week.
