HADLEY — Salvation Army officials are cooperating with a police investigation into allegations of a Peeping Tom incident at the charitable organization's Route 9 thrift store at 310 Russell St.

The incident was reported Friday and allegedly involved a male store employee caught peeking over a fitting room stall at a female customer who was trying on clothes. The employee was given a leave of absence while the probe is underway, Salvation Army spokesman Col. Timothy Raines told the Daily Hampshire Gazette.

Raines, a regional supervisor, said he had never previously heard of such an incident occurring at one of the military-style nonprofit organization's thrift stores.

The woman claimed she looked in the changing room mirror and saw the man, whom authorities haven't publicly identified, peering over the top of the fitting room door. "I felt so violated," she told the Gazette.

Authorities have yet to say if they plan to charge the employee with a crime. Such cases typically are prosecuted as disorderly conduct cases, even though that charge does not explicitly address voyeurism. However, there is precedent in Massachusetts case law for extending the charge to include Peeping Tom-type incidents.

A spokesman for the Hadley Police Department said no ranking officers were immediately available to discuss the case.

MAP showing location of alleged Peeping Tom incident at Salvation Army Thrift Store on Russell Street (Route 9) in Hadley: