LOWELL, Ark. — A woman arrested for video voyeurism after allegedly taking a picture of a coworker in a bathroom at the JB Hunt Corporate Office in 2022 has pleaded guilty and been sentenced.
Natalie Hannah Pershall, 46, was arrested and booked in the Benton County Jail on May 22, 2023, after an investigation by the Lowell Police Department (LPD).
Court documents say the incident took place on July 31, 2022.
The victim told police that she was using the women's bathroom at work when she noticed someone reach around the stall divider all the way to the back wall. The woman believed the person in the next stall, whom she identified as Pershall, took a picture.
During the investigation, Pershall told detectives she was in the bathroom due to a panic attack and dropped her phone, which caused the victim to think she was being photographed.
Officers attempted to recreate both scenarios, but Pershall's could not be replicated due to the positioning of the stall and the divider.
Police found evidence that Pershall had wiped data from her phone and computer in the days after the incident, including internet searches on how to “nuke a hard drive.”
This prompted authorities to issue a search warrant to access Pershall's iCloud information through Apple.
Police were able to recover a picture taken on Pershall's phone that showed “an unidentified subject with their pants down sitting on a toilet while they were photographed.”
During a pretrial hearing on March 25, Pershall pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 87 days in jail. Additionally, she was sentenced to six years of state-supervised probation and will have to register as a sex offender.
JB Hunt has not yet responded to 5NEWS' request for comment.
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