A 62-year-old registered sex offender pleaded guilty Friday to recording upskirt videos in Irvine and Tustin and was sentenced to three years in prison.
Roland Moreno pleaded guilty to felony counts of burglary and annoying or molesting a child with a prior conviction as well as 11 misdemeanor counts of using a concealed device to record another without their consent.
In a separate case he pleaded guilty to five counts of using a concealed device to record another without their consent and a count of contempt of court, all misdemeanors.
Police were called Oct. 20, 2023, to a Spirit Halloween store at 13852 Red Hill Ave., adjacent to Tustin High School, where they were told by multiple witnesses that Roland Moreno was seen taking videos under a woman’s skirt as she shopped inside the store with her two children.
Moreno fled the store prior to the officers’ arrival but left his cellphone behind, police said. A search of his phone revealed additional videos of similar nature from various locations, police said.
According to the criminal complaint, the dates of the upskirt videos were Sept. 17, Sept. 23, Oct. 8 and Oct. 20.
At the time of his arrest, Moreno was free on bail for similar offenses in Irvine, according to court records.
In that case, he was accused of second-degree burglary for entering a Trader Joe’s in Irvine on April 16, 2023, with the intent to commit child annoyance. The upskirt videos in that case were taken on April 1 and April 28, 2023, according to the complaint.
In July 2018, Moreno pleaded guilty to child annoyance and using a concealed recording device to record another without their consent as well as failure to register as a sex offender at all residential addresses — all misdemeanors.
Moreno pleaded guilty in January 2015 to a felony count of possessing or controlling child pornography and misdemeanor counts of upskirt videos, according to court records.