NORTHAMPTON — A 34-year-old Amherst man faces multiple charges of possessing and disseminating child pornography, as well as disseminating images of bestiality, after a woman reported being surreptitiously filmed in a gas station restroom.
The Sept. 23, 2022, complaint from the woman at the Stop & Shop gas station in Hadley drew police to question the attendant, Daniel Glazer-Powell, who allegedly acknowledged that he had left his cellphone in the restroom while it was occupied.
At a subsequent interview, Glazer-Powell admitted to police and Stop & Shop asset protection specialists that he was trying to record the woman while she was in the restroom, and had done so before with other people, according to police.
Hadley Police then applied for and were granted a warrant to search Glazer-Powell’s phone for evidence of “upskirting.” After allegedly finding evidence of child porn, they applied for a second warrant, which was granted with a date limitation.
Police said the phone contained evidence of child porn possession and dissemination, and they arrested Glazer-Powell Dec. 15 at his home in Amherst. There they found numerous electronic devices, which they seized under another warrant.
Police determined that the offenses involving child sexual abuse most likely occurred in Amherst, and Amherst police took charge of that investigation.
Hadley police allegedly found at least 10 separate videos on Glazer-Powell’s phone of women unknowingly exposing themselves while urinating at the Stop & Shop gas station restroom. He is charged with disorderly conduct for those offenses.
Both of Glazer-Powell’s phones contained an “enormous quantity” of photos and videos of himself engaged in sexually suggestive or explicit behavior as well as adult porn, child erotica and child sexual abuse, according to police.
One of the phones contained two images depicting bestiality, one of which was shared with another WhatsApp user, police said.
Glazer-Powell also allegedly shared numerous images and video of child porn, some of which involved the preschool-age child of someone known to him.
A grand jury in May indicted Glazer-Powell on 11 counts, nine of them felonies, and he was araigned in Hampshire Superior Court June 14.
At a pretrial hearing Monday in Superior Court, Judge James Manitsas accepted the joint recommendation of Assistant District Attorney Anne Yereniuk and defense attorney David Hoose to set another pretrial hearing for Jan. 4, 2024.