DECATUR-On Friday, September 11 the Decatur Police Department released a statement concerning the arrest of a suspect who has multiple arrest charges levied against him:
Perkins was transported to the Morgan County Jail, where he was booked in lieu of a $60,000.00 bond.
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The Decatur Police Department received a report of a suspicious person looking into the windows of a home in the early morning hours of September 5, 2020. The home owner positively identified the suspicious person as Christian Adahy Perkins.
During the course of the investigation, it was discovered Perkins engaged in surveillance of the home for the purpose of sexual gratification and observed a 15-year-old female in the bathroom.
On September 11, 2020 an arrest warrant carrying a $20,000 bond was obtained and executed on Perkins, who was being held at the Morgan County Jail on unrelated charges.
Aggravated criminal surveillance includes:
(a) A person commits the crime of aggravated criminal surveillance if he or she intentionally engages in surveillance of an individual in any place where the individual being observed has a reasonable expectation of privacy, without the prior express or implied consent of the individual being observed, for the purpose of sexual gratification.
(b) Aggravated criminal surveillance is a Class C Felony.
“Suspects are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.”