Westmont Man Arrested For Erin Andrews Videos

By Anthonia Akitunde in News on Oct 3, 2009 4:15PM

The FBI arrested a Westmont man Friday at O'Hare International Airport for allegedly videotaping an ESPN anchor in two hotel rooms, according to Chicago Breaking News. Michael David Barrett, 48, faces interstate stalking charges for producing nude videos of ESPN personality Erin Andrews (Andrews is not named in the FBI release but is identified as "an on-air personality with ESPN"). The videos - which lit up the sports blogosphere back in the summer - were obtained through "altering peepholes," the report said. According to The Australian, the eyepieces were "shortened" and then "hacksawed" to see into the victim's room.

One video was filmed during what the victim identified as her September 2008 stay at the Marriott Nashville at Vanderbilt University. Seven of the eight videos appear to have been filmed there. The FBI hasn't identified the location of the second room she was filmed in, but Barrett did book a Milwaukee hotel room the same time she was there, according to Breaking News. When the victim was made aware of the videos in July, she "instantly thought they were videos of her" when she watched them, the FBI affidavit said. Barrett was identified through an email account of someone trying to sell eight videos of Andrews to TMZ, a celebrity gossip site, the report said. He is held in federal custody in Chicago and is scheduled to appear in federal court today at 10 a.m. [Chicago Breaking News, The Australian]