A pervert hid in the waste tank of a portaloo at a US yoga festival to spy on women as they sat on the lavatory, police say.
Luke Chrisco, 30, was arrested in the Colorado town of Vail, west of Boulder, after he was discovered and fled the scene covered in human waste, authorities said.
Police said the event happened at the Hanuman Yoga Festival on June 17 when a woman noticed movement inside the storage tank and asked a male bystander to investigate.
The man told police he saw someone inside the tank covered in a tarpaulin. A security guard waited outside the toilet for 10 minutes until a shirtless, barefoot man with numerous cuts on his back and legs emerged covered in excrement.
The man fled across the festival grounds but was later arrested when police, investigating an unrelated complaint, stopped his vehicle and realised he resembled the suspect accused of hiding in a toilet at the festival last week.
Boulder police spokeswoman Kim Kobel says investigators are checking statements Chrisco made, saying he also spied on women using bathrooms at local businesses. Authorities say some peep holes have been found.
Chrisco faces one count of unlawful sexual contact and one count of criminal invasion of privacy.
He is being held on a $952 bond for the begging charge, and a $1428 bond for the alleged toilet offences.
by Sasha Dubronitz
