Models: Landlord hid cameras in bathroom

Tiny hidden cameras may mean big legal problems for a Florida landlord who rented an apartment to two Bulgarian women he’d hired as models.

Police are not sure what motive exists for secretly filming the women. (From Bay 9 TV)

The St. Petersburg Times reports the two women, Vanya Samokovareva, 22, and Ralitsa Dzhambazova, 23, lived in a Tampa apartment for two months and joked about the bathroom and bedroom smoke detectors being cameras, but were shocked when a male visitor Googled serial codes on the devices and learned they were indeed high-tech peepholes.

Wires led to a locked closet which contained an electronic box and something that appeared to be a WiFi device.

Now, the women think videos of them showering are on the Internet.

No suspect has been named, but the women say their landlord has a key to the apartment.

Hillsborough County investigators have recovered some of the electronic equipment, but after a local TV station reported the news, some devices were removed from the apartment.

The women, who had been hired by their landlord to dress up like superheroes, plan to fly the coop at month’s end.

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