On Nov. 26 at 6:07 a.m., officers responded to the 4800 block of Lichfield Place in Waldorf after a witness reported seeing a suspicious male in her neighborhood. PFC M. Sokoloff spotted the man and detained him.
The caller indicated the man, Joseph Walter Garrett, Jr., 25, of Waldorf, was the same person she saw on Nov. 21 hiding near an air conditioning unit outside her neighbor’s apartment and peeping into her neighbor’s bedroom and bathroom windows. The witness called police at that time but the man had already fled.
Upon further investigation, Garrett was positively identified as the peeping tom from the previous incident and he was arrested. Officers found a plastic bag containing marijuana, burnt marijuana cigarettes, and a smoking device made out of a deer antler inside his car.
Also, after the arrest, PFC Sokoloff received a call from the property manager who reported that a female resident made her aware of two sexually explicit notes she found on her car earlier in the month. One of the notes was reportedly written on the back of a court summons issued to Joseph Garrett.
Garrett was charged with peeping tom, peeping tom with prurient intent, possession of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia. A district court commissioner released Garrett from the detention center on a $5,000 bond. The investigation is continuing.
