A dishwasher at a posh Long Island restaurant was arrested for trying to secretly film people in a restroom, cops said on Sunday.
The scheme was discovered when a 26-year-old waitress at Prime, at 117 North New York Ave. in Huntington, found a cellphone that was set to record in an employee bathroom at around 8:30 p.m. Saturday, the Suffolk County Police Department said.
The phone was left in a restroom used by both men and women, a police source said.
José Rivas, a 34-year-old dishwasher at the restaurant, was arrested and charged with unlawful surveillance in the second degree after an investigation, cops said.
Rivas, of North Salem, was held overnight and was scheduled to be arraigned in Central Islip.
An employee who answered the restaurant’s phone on Sunday declined to comment.
Prime boasts views of Huntington Bay and is so chic, it doesn’t list prices on its online menu.
The incident was similar to another at a Long Island restaurant in June 2015.
In that case, Jack’s Shack restaurant worker Edward Ramirez was caught taping a cellphone under the sink in the women’s bathroom at the Glen Head establishment, authorities said.
A woman discovered the phone recording her after seeing Ramirez, 43, of Glen Cove, leave the bathroom, police said.