Suspect arrested for peeping up woman’s skirt

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November 12, 2007 - 12:00PM
Updated: November 12, 2007 - 5:13PM

Mike Branom, Tribune

An illegal immigrant from Mexico has been arrested for allegedly peeping up the skirt of a woman as she shopped in a Mesa department store.

Sebastian Sostenes, 41, was booked Sunday night on suspicion of voyeurism, a class 5 felony.

Watch Tribune reporter Nicole Beyer's video report

According to a police report, authorities were called to the Mervyn’s, 1240 E. Main Street, because security video caught a man looking up a woman’s skirt. The video showed Sostenes following the woman, and then laying on the ground as to better see up her skirt. Another time, he knelt down.

The 58-year-old woman told police she had no idea Sostenes was peeping on her.

After his arrest, Sostenes said his wife, back in Mexico, is very young and he is attracted to women his own age. He also said he hasn’t done anything like this in the last 10 years.

The arrest report states Sostenes was under the influence of alcohol at the time.

Watch Tribune reporter Nicole Beyer's video report

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Si senor

"The 58-year-old woman told police she had no idea Sostenes was peeping on her."

Yeah, you know what? She's right...she should expect a drunk little mexican man to be laying on the floor, right under her...maybe he was just checking the ceiling verdad?

Up until now, I only thought it was the very old or very stupid who were so naive...

OK now that I'm done with my saracsm, on with the 1001 comments about this sicko being illegal... Suggest removal of this comment

November 12, 2007

True Believer

Just here to looki up the skirts that others won't look up.

(Sorry, couldn't resist) Suggest removal of this comment

November 12, 2007

REALAMAERICAN

THIS " HISPANIC" ( is that the correct word now?) or should we say "MEXICAN" OR "LATINO"?? i'M so confused now ????
what do we call them??? how about calling a spade a spade... this perverted sicko MEXICAN
is sick... disgusting, vile and needs to be deported if that is still legal... amazing isnt it.... to hell in a handbasket and we just watch it go.... Suggest removal of this comment

November 12, 2007

Bobby

And he looks like such a sweet fellow. This is America in the year 2007, and to be completely fair, it isn't just illegal aliens from Mexico. We have lost our way as a nation because we have allowed ourselves to be one big disempowered group of citizens. These polticians who support the chaos going on in this nation, should be fired WHOLESALE. Suggest removal of this comment

November 12, 2007

TOM

2nd upskirt pervspanic in a week.
Must be a hard job trying to do public relations and spin doctor for these primates.
Whats up he didnt think about the mirrors on the shoes gag.

I guess too mucho cervesa's.
Memo to whoever hired this scumbag: THANKS JERK
He'lll be on vacation for a while but he'll be back in a month with a new name and fake documents to look up the skirts that Americans are too lazy to look up themselfs.
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November 12, 2007

Todd Stallion

I thought Mesa was a Free-for-all zone for the people formaly known as hispanics.

Whoever arrested this precious willing worker should feel the wrath of Gascon Comment has been reviewed

November 12, 2007

CW2

An illegal immigrant from Mexico Sebastian Sostenes! Just another "willing worker" just doing a job "Americans won't do". Just ask Bush, McCain, Napolitano, or Kyl! Suggest removal of this comment

November 12, 2007

Sean

"Does not matter whether this man was a legal citizen or not. He aledgedly committed a felony. "

It doesn't matter in the sense of him being arrested. But it does matter in the sense that this is yet another crime that would not have happened and another person that would not now be a victim if the government would do its job and close the damn border.

How many more people need to be needlessly raped, killed, assaulted, harassed, or robbed by someone who shouldn't even be here to commit that crime before something is done?

Oh, but that's right we need them so our lettuce doesn't become $10 a head...pathetic. Suggest removal of this comment

November 12, 2007

rcon1

2 Proud Hispanic, what we should with these animals...we hate them we hate were they came from and I hate you. Suggest removal of this comment

November 12, 2007

G.R.

As the Phoenix, Arizona police are saying - "America is policing mexico", which is exactly what is happening inside "our nation".

mexico needs to be dispanded with their citizens sent to any nation, but America. Then maybe we can move into mexico and build it up to what it should be.

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