Pastor Arrested for Allegedly Placing Hidden Camera in Church Bathroom

Pastor Arrested for Hidden Camera in Church Bathroom

A pas­tor at 2|42 Com­mu­ni­ty Church in Brighton, Michi­gan has been arrest­ed after alleged­ly admit­ting to plac­ing a cam­era in a uni­sex bath­room on the church campus.

Camera Discovered by Church Staff

Accord­ing to an email shared with the church com­mu­ni­ty, a staff mem­ber at the church dis­cov­ered the cam­era on Friday. 

The email stat­ed that Will John­son, the church’s wor­ship pas­tor direc­tor, “con­fessed that he placed it there” and was prompt­ly fired.

Church Cooperating with Investigation

The church lead­er­ship imme­di­ate­ly noti­fied the Liv­ingston Coun­ty Sher­if­f’s Office, who arrest­ed John­son on Sat­ur­day night. 

The church has stat­ed that they are ful­ly coop­er­at­ing with the ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tion and are “shocked and deeply sad­dened by this situation.”

Church Searching Facilities and Hiring Third-Party

As of Sat­ur­day, the sher­if­f’s office did not have any indi­ca­tion of oth­er cam­eras placed on the church campus. 

How­ev­er, the church lead­er­ship said they are “thor­ough­ly search­ing all of our facil­i­ties” and will “engage the ser­vices of a third-par­ty pro­fes­sion­al out of an abun­dance of caution.”

Charges and Court Proceedings

John­son was arraigned on Sun­day in Liv­ingston Coun­ty Dis­trict Court and faces three felony charges, includ­ing sur­veilling an unclothed per­son, using a com­put­er to com­mit a crime, and tam­per­ing with evidence. 

His bond was set at $250,000, and his pre­lim­i­nary exam­i­na­tion is sched­uled for Octo­ber 1.