Attorneys for Robert Kraft claim police used a false bomb threat in order to clear out a Florida spa so they could install cameras to spy on the facility.
In a motion to suppress the video footage the Jupiter Police Department obtained via those cameras, Kraft’s attorneys wrote that officers “caused a phony ‘suspicious package’ warning to be issued for the Spa in order to force an evacuation so the JPD could install hidden cameras inside several of its private massage rooms, as well as in the Spa’s lobby.”
In order to obtain the warrant which allowed them to use the fake bomb threat, police made “allusions to human trafficking.”
But, according to Kraft’s attorneys, police misrepresented evidence to obtain that warrant because they wanted to engage in the “most drastic, invasive, indiscriminate spying conceivable.”
“Law enforcement in this case had no authority whatsoever for something as drastic as ‘sneak and peak’ video surveillance,” Kraft’s attorneys wrote in their 92-page court filing.
The Patriots owner’s lawyers also claim that since there is no audio recording of Kraft asking for sex, no solicitation occurred.
“In sum, the worst offenses that jump out from this record are not those committed by one or another masseuse or patron whose massage allegedly included (a) consensual sexual act,” the attorneys wrote. “Far more worrisome than any alleged misdemeanor are the astonishing lengths to which law enforcement went in order to orchestrate a calculated, systematic campaign to blow past established constitutional limits.”
Kraft, 77, was charged in February with paying for sex acts at the spa Orchids of Asia Day Spa twice. He has pleaded not guilty.
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