Police have arrested a 55-year-old former pro baseball player who currently works as a talent scout and score keeper for the Hanshin Tigers team, on allegedly taking photos up a woman’s skirt in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture.

According to police, the incident occurred on Tuesday just after 4 p.m. Police said the suspect, Koji Yamawaki, followed the 25-year-old woman up the escalator in an electronics store at Sendai Station and used his smartphone to take photos up her skirt, Sankei Shimbun reported.

When the woman turned around and saw what Yamawaki was doing, she screamed and a man nearby helped subdue him.

Police said Yamawaki has denied doing anything lewd and quoted him as saying “I was simply trying to take a photo from behind her.”

Yamawaki was supposed to be at Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi for the baseball match between the Rakuten Eagles and Chunichi Dragons when he was arrested.

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