MADISON, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin student accused of spy-videoing in dorm toilet stalls has posted bail and left jail. Meanwhile 19-year-od Braden Berndt, age 19, has been banned from dorms and is believed to have gone home 90 miles away in Berlin. Berndt was arrested Sunday and held on three counts of disorderly conduct and three counts of capturing an image depicting nudity without consent. From police documents and interviews, this is what happened:
> A sixth-floor student in the dorm said someone in the next stall of a men’s bathroom dropped a blue phone between the divider, camera pointing up, and let it lie perhaps four seconds before picking it up. This was on Saturday.
> The student encountered a similar encounter earlier in the day— same bathroom, same blue phone.
> Suspicious, the student created a group chat with other dorm residents to ask if they had experienced similar incidents. A fellow resident responded thathe had.
> Both students went together to the bathroom and set a trap. This time they quickly grabbed the phone when it dropped.
> They confronted the guy in the next stall.anded that he delete all his videos — somewhere between 40 and 50, they said.
> Campus security was called, then police.
Sellery Hall. Incidents in sixth-floor men’s room of B Tower of 1,100 student UW-Madison dorm.
Berndt. Charge: Capturing images depicting nudity without consent