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Lancaster man retried, sentenced to prison for “up-skirt” pictures

by The AV Times Staff • August 7, 2015

Mylyn Johnson aka Lamar Quinn
Mylyn Johnson aka Lamar Quinn

LANCASTER – A 31-year-old Lancaster man received a five-year prison sentence Friday which will be added to a previous sentence of 15 years and six months in state prison for secretly taking pictures under the skirts of hundreds of women, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.

Mylyn Coriche Johnson aka Lamar Quinn was originally convicted Sept. 17, 2013 of 14 counts — one felony count each of sexual battery by fraud and false imprisonment by violence and 12 misdemeanor counts of video or photograph of person in undergarment.

After a court of appeals reversed five of the misdemeanor count convictions, Johnson was retried and found guilty by a jury July 27 of five misdemeanor counts of video or photograph of an identifiable person in undergarments, according to Deputy District Attorney Theodore Swanson.

Johnson now is sentenced to a total of 20 years and six months in state prison.

The case stems from Johnson’s arrest at a Target store in Lancaster on Mar. 16, 2013. Johnson was busted after a victim informed store security that she and her sister were being followed throughout the store by Johnson, according to court testimony. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Special Victims Bureau detectives found thousands of videos of more than 100 women on Johnson’s cellphone, on media storage devices in Johnson’s possession, and in Johnson’s Lancaster home when a search warrant was served, sheriff’s officials said previously.

Between August 2012 and March 2013, Johnson shot up-skirt photos with his phone of several unsuspecting victims at various stores in the Lancaster area, the prosecutor said. On Feb. 20, 2013, the defendant falsely claimed he was a security guard at a Lancaster K-Mart and patted a woman down claiming to look for stolen merchandise, the prosecutor added.

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15 comments for "Lancaster man retried, sentenced to prison for “up-skirt” pictures"

  1. angel says

    August 9, 2015 at 6:58 pm

    Actually he is a registered sexoffender
    Not just taking pics
    I use to talk to him and when I seen this I was like omg

  2. AVSUX says

    August 9, 2015 at 10:01 am

    This guy is a pervert, but almost 16 years in the pen for undergarment photos? Seems excessive. America, Land of the Free( as long as you do what you’re told). America, Land of the Free(except for the # 1 incarceration rate). Land of delusional hypocrites.

    • Tony says

      August 9, 2015 at 3:10 pm

      Just follow God’s and the government laws and you’ll be fine.
      I guess no one is here forced to stay in this beautifull country, there are other countries in the world that perverts like this roam freely.
      Consider that just in case.

      • Joe says

        August 10, 2015 at 8:49 am

        God’s law? Seriously? How old was Mary when she gave birth to Jesus? Consensus appears to be 14, possibly younger. Even if a bit older, Joseph belongs on the Megans Law web site!

        The government’s law? The same government that considered humans property? Interred thousands of people for no other reason than their heritage? Back in the day… today, the same government that, while ruling over 5% of the world’s population, incarcerates 25% of the world’s prisoners?

        That is a heck of a God’s law and a government’s law to follow like sheep.

        • lol says

          August 10, 2015 at 12:14 pm

          You should research more, peoples life expectancies were shorter at that day and age. People werent living as long. They didnt have the same medicine as today, no filtered water. People were lucky to live to an old age. They married younger and died younger. And it depends on where you live, Antelope Valley likes to give people maximum prison sentences.

          • Joe says

            August 10, 2015 at 2:07 pm

            Sexual maturity comes on pretty much on the front end of life. When you die has pretty much no bearing on sexual maturity, whatsoever. If I should research more, I assume you have. Please enlighten me as to this issue.

            The only valuable comment you make is “Antelope Valley likes to give people maximum prison sentences.” As does the rest of this country. Resulting in 25% of the world’s prisoners whilst sporting 5% of the world’s population.

        • Tony says

          August 10, 2015 at 9:54 pm

          Well Joe, no one is forcing you to follow any of the two, if you’re happy the way you conduct yor life, good for you! But I see in your comments the opposite, you’re unhappy with the govertment and with God (if you believe in one)
          The reality is you are in this country and this country is made of laws either obey them or suffer the consequences.
          Blessings. ….

      • William says

        August 10, 2015 at 11:22 am

        The folks on the right (conservatives/republicans/tea partiers) who are constantly trashing our government and its leaders and keep telling us the country is in decline (yet they want to run it further into the ground with their policies and/or shut it down when they don’t get their way) should be the ones who should find another country to reside in.

        I am tired of their tired comments that this is an ‘exceptional country’ while at the same time constantly trashing it.

        What is the matter with these people? Leave. They should just leave.

        But, they won’t. They just love to complain non-stop until their thankful demise which will give them some relief. But, I’ll bet they’ll continue to complain in the hereafter because of the heat, the humidity, the flames, the misery and that nasty guy in the red suit. Red being the color of the GOP, y’know. And, i hear he has an artificial heart that will run forever.

        Until then, we can just throw ‘facts’ on them like holy water mixed with garlic on a vampire.

    • angel says

      August 9, 2015 at 6:59 pm

      No he is a registered sex offender
      As well

  3. getreal says

    August 8, 2015 at 5:02 pm

    Wow. 20 years for undergarment photos. In a country that has no problem killing (!) thousands of innocent women, children and men because they are in the vicinity of people suspected (!) of being “terrorists”. Wow.

    • Tony says

      August 9, 2015 at 8:39 am

      Well, you need to bring up this issue to the United Nations, here n the United States this is the law and thw law has been applied to this animal period

      • Joe says

        August 10, 2015 at 8:54 am

        The Nazis never broke a single law, you know.

        • Tony says

          August 10, 2015 at 9:58 pm

          And where are they now?
          Even at almost 90 years old, one of them was brought out to justice recently and sent to prision for what remains of his miserable life.

          • Joe says

            August 12, 2015 at 7:06 am

            Precisely. The person you reference, Oskar Groening, was recently found guilty of being an accessory to crimes against humanity. For doing his job – a strictly clerical position, under the rules of the land at the time. A legal employee, 100% in accordance with the law and respected by his contemporaries. He never murdered anyone.

            Hopefully it will take less than 70 years to bring to justice the people responsible for the incarceration levels of this country, today. And sending them to prison for the rest of their miserable lives. The architects (legislators), the collaborators (prison guards and law enforcement), the people that support such laws (you).

            In the meantime, thank you for making my point.

  4. Mike C says

    August 8, 2015 at 6:38 am

    Now he can go look at naked men in the prison shower. Enjoy yourself.

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