TITUSVILLE,, Fla. – A man once arrested for taking cellphone video up young girls' skirts inside an Orlando Best Buy store is now charged with sexually assaulting a teenager.
James Anthony Jones, 44, was arrested on Monday in Brevard County for two counts of sexual assault, and a judge denied him bond.
Orange County sheriff's deputies had arrested Jones in October of last year after his neighbors recognized him in surveillance video shown on Local6.
The video showed Jones walking into the Best Buy store on South Orange Blossom Trail and putting his cell phone near the bottom of young girls' skirts while they shopped with their parents.
Six months after being arrested, the State Attorney's Office dropped the video voyeurism charges.
Local 6 has learned prosecutors didn't receive the video files that were possibly captured on his cell phone from the crime laboratory in time for him to go to trial on the charges. They say they only had the surveillance video as evidence.
"Surveillance and witness statements were insufficient to prove (the) case," read a report obtained by Local 6. "The defendant is seen squatting or kneeling behind a child with his phone in his hand, but you cannot tell if the phone is recording, and there is no clear shot that shows the defendant pointing the phone up the child's skirt."
The video voyeurism charges were dropped in April.
A Local 6 viewer said she's outraged Jones was let out of jail. She said if he was charged the first time, this teenager in Brevard County may have escaped her experience with him.
Jones' next court date in Brevard County is Oct. 16.