GOLDEN, Colo.-
A former state trooper convicted of setting up a mirror to watch a woman in a department store dressing room was sentenced Tuesday to 10 days in jail and 1 1/2 years probation.
Eric Leon Bufkin, 34, of Golden, was convicted in March of a misdemeanor charge of attempted sexual contact, peeping Tom. As part of his sentence he must also register as a sex offender.
Bufkin testified that he got the idea from a voyeuristic porn Web site and used a mirror designed for law enforcement to read vehicle identification numbers on the under side of automobiles, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said Bufkin set up the mirror in the juniors department last year and a woman became suspicious when she noticed a mirror aimed up at her from under the dividing wall of her stall. Bufkin ran when the woman cried out, and witnesses who followed him to his unmarked, government car wrote down his license plate information.
Bufkin had been assigned to a terrorism task force, according to testimony at trial.
