GROVELAND, Fla. — A Groveland doctor is facing charges after police said he was caught at a Publix taking videos up a woman's skirt Thursday.
Police said a manager at the store at the Eagle Ridge shopping center said a customer caught Akram Ismail, 57, in the act.
The manager told police he then saw Ismail open the camera and video setting on his cellphone, bend down and move the camera under a woman’s skirt.
He was charged with one count of video voyeurism.
Police are seeking a search warrant to review the photographs and video on Ismail's cellphone to see if there will be additional charges.
Ismail was arrested and taken to the Lake County Jail.
He has since bonded out.
“To think that somebody has nothing better to do,” said a Publix shopper, who did not want to be identified.
Ismail told police he has a problem taking these kinds of pictures, and had an appointment to see a specialist.
In 2011, Ismail avoided jail time after being accused of hiring a hit man to kill his business partner.
Ismail denied the charges and they were later reduced after problems with wiretaps in evidence.
His medical license was suspended four years ago, but it’s unclear if he was still practicing at the time of his arrest.