An Anne Arundel Community College student has been arrested after police say he installed a camera on a toilet in a women’s bathroom at the Arnold campus and recorded at least eight people.

Tsague Georges Albert Tadonki Jr. faces 24 misdemeanors related to conducting visual surveillance of another person in a private place without their consent, court records show.

Tadonki is being represented by the Office of the Public Defender, which declined comment Tuesday.

A female faculty member called college police Feb. 12 after lifting the toilet seat in the women’s bathroom on the third floor of the Cade Center for Fine Arts and noticing a recording device attached to a small battery bank, according to charging documents.

College authorities contacted Anne Arundel County Police that day and detectives took over the investigation.

Investigators watched security camera footage from the area around the bathroom, starting at the time the recording device was discovered and working backward, county police detectives wrote in charging documents. They traced a “suspect” from the bathroom to the car in which he arrived on campus, a dark-colored Hyundai sedan.

Charging documents say the vehicle was registered to Tadonki, who was enrolled at the college. Campus police got a Motor Vehicle Administration photo of him and compared it to surveillance footage from the bathroom. Detectives wrote that Tadonki’s photo matched the appearance of the person they suspected of planting the recording device.

County detectives asked for legal permission to examine the device’s contents, and Circuit Judge Elizabeth S. Morris ultimately approved a search warrant.

Footage from the device showed Tadonki installing it on Feb. 12, according to charging documents.

Videos from Feb. 11 and 12 showed eight females “undressing to use the bathroom exposing their genitals and buttocks,” detectives wrote. “After using the facility all of them left without noticing the device recording them.”

Community college spokesperson Alicia Renehan said the college doesn’t comment on ongoing investigations.

“While there was no evidence of any additional devices, our Department of Public Safety and Police encourages everyone to stay aware of their surroundings and report anything that seems out of place,” Renehan said. “We remain committed to maintaining a safe environment.”

In a Feb. 12 crime alert, college police reported the discovery of the device in the women’s bathroom on the third floor of the fine arts building. They said they searched all restrooms at both community college campuses and found no evidence of additional devices. They encouraged women who may have used that bathroom on Feb. 12 to contact officers.

College police called county detectives on Feb. 16 to tell them Tadonki was back at the college to attend class, charging documents say. After class, campus police asked him to go to the security building, and he obliged.

In a separate crime alert that day, college police said the suspect in the Peeping Tom incident was “barred immediately from all college properties.”

County detectives interviewed him in that building. They wrote that he admitted setting up the camera on the women’s toilet.

“He stated he would place the camera and watch it live on his phone through WiFi capabilities,” detectives wrote.

According to charging documents, Tadonki told detectives he was charged for a “similar incident” in 2023 at the University of Maryland, College Park, and reported that he was on probation from that case.

At Maryland, Tadonki studied civil engineering as part of the Promise Scholarship Program, according to the university’s website. He wrote in a post that he hoped to pursue a career in civil engineering and to engage in projects to address “the challenges brought by climate change.”

Online court records show Tadonki pleaded guilty in Prince George’s County Circuit Court to two counts of conducting visual surveillance in a private area. Circuit Judge Leo E. Green Jr. granted Tadonki probation before judgment on Oct. 7, a special plea that doesn’t count as a conviction as long as the person successfully completes their probation.

His probation agent in that case has requested a warrant for his arrest, according to online court records.

In the Anne Arundel case, detectives wrote that they were still working to identify the females depicted in videos on Tadonki’s recording device. They also indicated that they had more incidents to investigate.

Detectives wrote that campus police “found numerous days in the beginning of February where Mr. Tadonki was seen entering the first floor women’s bathroom in the Cade building. It’s unclear if he used a recording device on those occasions.”

Deputies with the Anne Arundel County Sheriff’s Office arrested Tadonki Feb. 18 at an apartment complex in Laurel, the same address he lists in court records.