Howard County prosecutors filed additional charges Tuesday against the Rams Head Group president accused of secretly videotaping women in the bathroom of his company's Savage location, according to court records.
Kyle Muehlhauser, 37, was charged with six counts of "peeping Tom" violations, according to court records. Those are in addition to the six counts of visual surveillance with prurient intent that county police filed last week. Records indicate that they stem from the same alleged incident. All of the counts are misdemeanors.
Deputy Howard County State's Attorney Kim Oldham declined to comment on the new charges.
Howard County police say Muehlhauser, of Severna Park, turned himself in last week following a 10-month investigation that began in May after a digital video camera fell onto the floor next to a woman who was in the bathroom at the Rams Head Tavern in Savage. Muehlhauser was released on $35,000 bond.
Muehlhauser could not be reached for comment Tuesday, and no attorney is listed for him in online court records.
He owns the Rams Head Group with his father, Bill. The company operates the concert venues Rams Head on Stage in Annapolis, Rams Head Center Stage at Maryland Live casino in Hanover and Rams Head Live in Baltimore, as well as restaurants in Savage, Crownsville and Stevensville.
Howard County police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn said Tuesday that the department has received calls from women who worried that they could have been secretly taped, but many said they visited the restaurant after May, when the camera was removed. None of the six women whose images were captured on the video are identifiable, she said.
Llewellyn would not say how many women have called the department about the case.
Also Tuesday, the Queen Anne's County sheriff's office said it is looking into whether any illegal surveillance occurred at Rams Head's Shore House in Stevensville.
"It's under investigation now, but there's nothing so far to indicate that any similar occurrences were in Stevensville," said Dale Patrick, the public information officer
Police in Baltimore, Anne Arundel County and Annapolis have said they have no evidence that people were taped at Rams Head locations there.
The Rams Head case is the latest in a series of high-profile video voyeurism cases in the region. Last week, Rabbi Barry Freundel pleaded guilty in District of Columbia Superior Court to 52 counts of voyeurism after he secretly filmed women as they prepared in a changing room for a Jewish ritual bath known as a mikvah.
In another case, Dr. Nikita Levy, an obstetrician and gynecologist with Johns Hopkins Community Health Systems, was accused of photographing women during their exams. He killed himself during the investigation.
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