STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Police arrested a man who allegedly tried to film a 19-year-old woman through a bathroom ceiling at a Richmond Valley eatery back in March.

Josue Escobar, 28, moved the tiles in the women's room drop ceiling and positioned the camera at the teen on March 28 around 2 a.m., according to police.

The victim was in a stall in the women's room when she observed a hand holding a silver or chrome cell phone through a removed ceiling tile, with the device's camera pointed toward her, according to the criminal complaint.

The phone was apparently filming from a room next to the women's room, authorities said.

Based on a review of surveillance video, the defendant was the only individual in the vicinity of that adjacent room at the time the victim was in the restroom, the complaint alleges.

Escobar was arrested Monday around 10:45 p.m. at the diner, a spokeswoman for the NYPD said on Friday.

He is charged with attempted unlawful surveillance.

Bahaa El-Ansary, who operates the restaurant, spoke with the Advance Friday. He said Escobar had worked at the restaurant for six and a half years, and that evidence will show his employee's innocence.

In remarks to the Advance Wednesday, he said he believed the alleged victim was mistaken about the incident.

The victim spoke with the Advance about the incident at the Page Avenue eatery, but requested her name not be published because of safety concerns.

The teen said she went to the diner around 11 p.m. on March 28 with two friends to study for their anatomy test at the College of Staten Island. They had been studying at a coffee shop across the street, but went to diner when it closed.

"The Starbucks across the street was closed, so we decided to go there," the teen said Monday night.

As the group was leaving around 2 a.m., the girl went to use the restaurant's bathroom.

As she sat down in the stall, there was a sound above her. The woman turned around and looked up at the bathroom's drop ceiling.

She claims tiles in the ceiling had been moved, so that she could see through it. That's when she noticed the outline of an iPhone, she said.

The teen believes someone was taking photos of her in the bathroom while she was "exposed," and that her face could be seen in the photos.

"I ran out of the bathroom with the toilet paper still in my hand," she said.

A bus boy at the restaurant ran into the bathroom to see what was going on, but the manager working at the time thought she was mistaken, the teen said.

The teen called the police, and they investigated the incident.

They focused on a supply closet that's adjacent to the bathroom, she said.

Escobar posted bail of $500 bond after his arraignment on Thursday, and is due back in court on June 5.

A message left for his attorney Friday was not immediately returned.