Overview
- A Walmart employee first confronted Paul T. Raibley on July 2 after spotting him photographing a female customer and the suspect fled the store
- On July 18 asset protection staff at the same New Lenox location saw him using a camera disguised as a key fob to record children and called police
- Officers recovered the hidden key fob device containing footage from both incidents before securing a search warrant for Raibley’s Joliet residence
- Investigators seized storage devices at his home that held dozens of videos of juveniles filmed in public settings
- Raibley was charged with three counts of child photography by a sex offender and one count of unauthorized video recording and was denied pre-trial release pending a July 31 hearing