SOUTH MIAMI, FLA. (WSVN) - Newly released video shows the moment a University of Miami student was placed in handcuffs on campus and placed in the back of a police cruiser after being accused of a creepy crime against his own roommate.
Twenty-one-year-old Dylan Hugh Long was taken into custody by South Miami Police on Tuesday after investigators said he hid a camera in his roommate’s bedroom nightstand and was secretly recording him.
Body camera footage shows the moment officers find Long and place handcuffs on him.
“Before I put you in the car, I need to put these on you,” an officer said.
Minutes later, Long arrives at the police station with officers, who bring him into an interrogation room and begin questioning him about the allegations.
“I never entered his room technically. It was from outside the room. But I’m not going to go there. But part of it is also we were all good friends, and we were all in each other’s rooms all the time even when we weren’t there to show people things or whatever, so this idea that there was always, ‘You should never enter the room’ was not really a thing.”
According to the arrest report, Long’s roommate found the recording device after noticing a blue light coming from the nightstand. He confronted Long, who denied it, and left for his university class.
While Long was out of the room, investigators say the roommate plugged the camera in and found 49 recordings. Some showed Long testing out the device while others captured the roommate walking “to and from the shower without his knowledge or consent,” the report states.
Body camera footage from Sept. 12 shows the roommate speaking with detectives in his apartment and showing them the recorded videos.
During the interrogation, detectives say Long admitted to putting the device in the bedroom but only to confirm that his roommate was reading his text messages that had gone unanswered.
“[Came from] the bar at 2 a.m., I just kind of chucked it in his dresser and positioned it so I would know whether or not — cause he said he was going to go play video games — I knew if he was going to play video games, if he was going to look at his phone and see the text message but purposely not respond to me,” Long told investigators.
But the defendant said he never saw the footage.
“I never saw any of the footage. I didn’t even know how to see the footage,” Long said.
In bond court on Wednesday, Long’s attorney maintained his client’s innocence.
“Judge, this is an argument that happened between roommates and then turned a little different. Mr. Long has never been in trouble before,” said the attorney.
The judge found probable cause and ordered Long to stay away from the roommate.
Since then, Long has bonded out of jail and has entered a written plea of not guilty.
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