Under Table Syringe-Moistened Women's Shoes Photographed

(Cincinnati, Ohio) A 43-year-old man, Dwight Pannell, was arrested Thursday for allegedly crawling under a table at a University of Cincinnati library, spraying a substance from a syringe onto women's shoes, and photographing them.

Pannell was charged with voyeurism, assault and criminal trespass.

The woman, a UC student, told police she was in the Langsam Library on Woodside Drive about 9 p.m. Wednesday when she spotted a suspicious-looking man walking around, records state.

Then, she heard a noise coming from under her table and felt something cold on her feet.

“When I looked down, the person was on his knee with the syringe,” she wrote in an affidavit filed with the court.

She immediately knew the man under her table was responsible for putting some sort of watery substance on her shoes, she wrote.

She ran for help to the person next to her, and he told her to go downstairs and tell security.

“Apparently, she did right thing,” Patterson said of the woman. “As soon as she felt something, she got up and ran away and contacted the police so we were able to catch him. It doesn’t appear there was any other victim.”

UC police arrested Pannell at the library and seized his camera, Patterson said.

Pannell was booked into custody at the county jail with Judge Dwane Mallory setting bond at $75,000.

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