Colorado Mom Arrests Peeping Tom Who Filmed Her In Her Dressing Room

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By Katherine Donlevy

A Colorado woman took matters into her own hands last week when she caught a voyeur slipping a cell phone under her dressing room door.

Michelle Chandler lunged at the creep and held him down at a department store at Lakewood Mall.

The video shows the mother-of-five sitting on the stranger as he desperately tries to run away.

She eventually used her knee to hold the man to the ground as store associates piled in, holding him steady until mall security arrived and handcuffed the peeping tom.

The team even used a belt to restrain the patient, she said.

“You need to be held accountable,” Chandler recalled telling the creep in an interview with Fox 31.

“What you did was wrong.”

The terrifying incident happened while Chandler was trying on outfits for Mother’s Day, a happy occasion that was quickly ruined by the stranger’s antics.

She got her first inkling that something was wrong when a pungent smell hit her nostrils inside the gender-neutral locker room.

“It’s funny, I noticed someone’s feet stank really bad,” Chandler said.

“As I was going to take these pants off,” she added, pointing to the jeans she was wearing. “I leaned over and looked and saw men’s shoes, socks and his phone pointing straight at me.”

Chandler took action without hesitation – she said she couldn’t risk the thought of him escaping and doing the act again.

“I grabbed him, threw him to the ground, put my knee on his back and held his head down,” she said.

Chandler said the suspect was a 19-year-old man, but did not give his name.

The Lakewood Police Department confirmed it was involved in this disturbing incident, but did not mention what charges, if any, were filed against the Peeping Tom.

“Unfortunately, it’s legitimate,” a police spokesperson told FOX31.

The incident comes just weeks after a pervert was caught slipping his phone under an unsuspecting North Carolina Target shopper to film an “upskirt” video.

Thomas Elliott, 21, a volunteer at a local primary school, desperately tried to deny carrying out the devious act.