Sex offender charged with filming upskirt videos near UC Irvine

IRVINE, Calif. - A 60-year-old sex offender previously convicted of child annoyance and secretly recording someone without their consent was charged Tuesday with doing the same at a grocery store near UC Irvine.

Roland Moreno was charged with burglary and child annoyance, both felonies, as well as a dozen misdemeanor counts of using a concealed recording device to record another without their consent, according to court records.

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 — in July 2018.

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Moreno was booked on suspicion of filming so-called upskirt videos with his cell phone at Trader Joe's in the University Center shopping mall, according to Sgt. Karie Davies of the Irvine Police Department.

According to the criminal complaint, Moreno is accused of second-degree burglary for entering Trader Joe's on April 16 with the intent to commit child annoyance. He is also charged with committing child annoyance on that date.

He is also charged with filming an upskirt video on April 28.

All the other alleged crimes occurred on April 1, according to the complaint.

Moreno was being held on $100,000 bail, according to jail records.