On July 24, 2013, a Microsoft vendor employee working at the company's RedWest campus in Redmond had a piece of good fortune—he found a Muvi USB video camera just lying in the footpath between buildings. He picked up the camera, only later taking a look at the footage on the device, which revealed that his good fortune was actually evidence of a crime. The Muvi camera contained "upskirt" video footage of women climbing stairs or escalators—or sometimes just standing in checkout lines—and some of it had been shot on Microsoft's campus.

The vendor employee reported the incident to Microsoft Global Security, who took possession of the camera on July 26. To find the camera's owner, two Global Security investigators pulled up Microsoft's internal security camera footage covering the RedWest footpath. They began by locating the moment when the vendor employee walked into the frame, paused, and bent down to retrieve the camera off the ground. Investigators then rewound the footage to see who had dropped it.

At the 11:24am mark, they saw a man in a collared shirt and reddish pants walk out of a RedWest building and walk along the footpath. Then, at 11:25am, the vendor employee appeared and picked up the camera. At 11:26am, the man in the reddish pants suddenly returned to the picture. According to a later report from the Redmond Police Department, he was "rushing" back to the RedWest building he had just left and appeared "nervous, frantically looking around." He eventually used a keycard to re-enter the RedWest building.

Global Security suspected that this was the camera's owner, attempting to retrieve his property after the sudden sinking realization that he no longer had possession of it. To find the man, the security team simply pulled keycard records from the building and cross-checked them with the time on the security camera footage; they IDed their suspect as another Microsoft vendor employee, thirtysomething Seattle resident Leonard Raymundo.

On August 15, with their investigation complete, one of the investigators met with Raymundo and escorted him out of the building. On the walk out, the man allegedly told the investigator that he had spent his leisure time over the last year visiting voyeuristic upskirt websites, that he had started shooting such footage himself, and that he had, rather incredibly, visited the sites from his Microsoft-assigned Asus laptop and had downloaded his own footage to said laptop.

Microsoft turned the case over to the local police. In December, a Redmond detective obtained a search warrant to search the Muvi camera and the Asus laptop, finding 86 upskirt videos featuring 93 victims. "None of the victims appear aware they are being filmed and are not intending to participate in filming," the detective noted in documents seen by Ars Technica. As for Raymundo, the detective noted that his face "is captured on film nearly 50 times throughout the collection of Muvi videos."

On March 28, 2014, Raymundo was charged in state court with felony voyeurism. Washington State's anti-voyeurism law, which went into effect in 2003, says:

(2) A person commits the crime of voyeurism if, for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of any person, he or she knowingly views, photographs, or films: (a) Another person without that person's knowledge and consent while the person being viewed, photographed, or filmed is in a place where he or she would have a reasonable expectation of privacy; or (b) The intimate areas of another person without that person's knowledge and consent and under circumstances where the person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, whether in a public or private place.

In requesting that Raymundo's bail be set at $50,000, the prosecutor noted that "the defendant appeared to plan ahead and selected his filming locations carefully to ensure an abundance of potential victims. He also downloaded the videos to his work laptop without apparent fear of consequences."

Seattle's KIRO TV station, which first reported the story of Raymundo's prosecution, notes that he will enter a plea in the case during a court hearing on April 10.