A 55-year-old man was ordered to serve nearly two years and up to a decade in prison for his 10th and 11th convictions for filming and/or viewing an unclothed person in a public setting.
Cedric James Simpson received a sentence of 23 months to 10 years last week from Macomb County Circuit Judge James Maceroni after pleading guilty to surveilling an unclothed person and using a computer, a phone, to commit a crime for a September 2023 incident at the Meijer store at Groesbeck Highway and Cass Avenue in Clinton Township. He received 8-1/2 months of credit for time served and will be first eligible for parole in May 2026.
Police said Simpson entered the women’s restroom, hid in a stall and held his phone over the top of the adjoining wall to film a woman.
As part of a plea and sentencing deal with Macomb prosecutors, a separate charge of surveilling an unclothed person in July 2020 in Roseville was dismissed.
The sentences will be served simultaneously with a 2-to-10-year term that began in October 2023 for a similar incident in Wayne County, according to Michigan Department of Corrections records.
He previously served 10 years in prison for several similar convictions, all but two for acts in Macomb County. The first three incidents occurred in 2007 and 2008 in Macomb for which he served two years, MDOC records say.
He also was convicted of the charge by a jury in January 2013 for peeking over a stall wall in the women’s restroom in July 2011 at Buffalo Wild Wings on Market Street in Mount Clemens.
In September 2022, he was caught looking at a woman in a restroom at the now-closed Bailey’s Pub & Grille at Maple and Coolidge roads in Troy and later pleaded no contest to the surveilling charge, records say.
He was sentenced to five years in Macomb and four years in Oakland to a maximum of 10 years for both cases and was released in November 2022, MDOC records say.