Man pleads guilty to taking unauthorized ‘upskirt’ photos of a woman at Irvine car wash, is sentenced to community service

NEWPORT BEACH — A 45-year-old Portola Hills man pleaded guilty Tuesday to taking upskirt photos of a woman at an Irvine car wash and was immediately sentenced to perform 80 hours of community service.

Nathan Martin Haley pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of using a concealed recording device to photograph a woman without her consent. He was placed on three years of informal probation and ordered to take 10 sexual boundary classes, his attorney Brian Gurwitz said.

The woman called Irvine police on July 31, 2018, alleging that a suspect used his phone to take pictures of her under her skirt at a car wash at 3080 Main St., according to Kim Mohr of the Irvine Police Department.

She said the man pretended to drop his phone under her dress; she further reported that he attempted again to place his phone on the ground near her as she vacuumed her car, Mohr said.

The woman took a picture of the suspect’s blue Mini Cooper as he drove away and, with the car’s license plate, police identified Haley as a suspect, Mohr said.