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Residents of a Washington state neighborhood are on edge this week after spotting several hidden cameras set up around a bus stop where children wait to go to school each morning.
David Springgay, a resident of the Union Hill neighborhood in Redmond, told Fox 13 Seattle that his 11-year-old son found the first of two mysterious trail cameras by the school bus stop on Feb. 1.
Springgay asked his neighbors if they owned the camera, and when no one claimed the device, he downloaded the data from the camera.
"You could see in the images that there was my teenage daughter," Springgay said. "You saw my kids, my elementary aged kids come and be down there and wait for the bus."
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A trail camera of unknown origin was found hidden in a Washington state neighborhood. (Fox 13 Seattle)
A second camera was found by one of Springgay’s neighbors a week later a few yards down from the first one and was covered in hot-glued foliage just like the first one.
The second camera was not pointed at the bus stop but rather a driveway, and data captured vehicles coming and going from the property.
Both cameras appeared to have caught footage of the individual who set up the cameras, but the figure was difficult to identify.
"He was doing it at 3 in the morning, so it's a black-and-white, grainy picture," Springgay said.
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An individual who was believed to have set up the cameras was spotted on video. (Fox 13 Seattle)
Sprinngay said he turned the camera in to the King County Sheriff’s Office, which said it is being treated as found property and no crime has been committed of yet.
"Once a crime is committed, then they can use it as reason to get the records from the company that manufactures the camera," said Springgay.
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The cameras were turned into the King County Sheriff's Office. (Fox 13 Seattle)
Springgay told the outlet he was concerned about who was watching his neighborhood.
"The camera is connected to the cellular network," Springgay said. "All those images were being potentially uploaded to whoever placed the camera there."
The King County Sheriff's Office told Fox News Digital there have been "no updates" on the incident.
