BEAUMONT, Texas — A Beaumont man was sentenced Tuesday for invasive visual recording of women in public in June 2023.
Larry Mayfield, Jr., stood before Judge Raquel West in 252nd District Court on Dec. 12, 2023. Mayfield was 37 when he was arrested.
Mayfield was accused of filming up women's skirts in public, according to Beaumont Police. He was on probation for the same charge at the time of his arrest.
Former 12News Anchor Jackie Simien was one of several victims in the case.
"Considering he was on probation at the time of his latest crimes, I am requesting that he receive the maximum punishment allowable by law," Simien previously told 12News.
Simien currently works for BISD as director of community and media relations.
Mayfield previously pled guilty to all four counts.
In court Tuesday, defense attorney Shannon Holmes said that Mayfield requires counseling for his problem and asked that her client get home confinement or probation.
"Mr. Mayfield has a condition that it will take a lot of counseling and effort to help him to understand that the actions that he has committed and the way he goes about doing things with his cell phone needs to be addressed," Holmes said to Judge West.
Prosecutor Phillip Smith "completely" disagreed with that statement.
"I feel like he gave the illusion that he was complying with every term and condition of probation. He had every opportunity and he got probation after having already having committed this particular thing back in 2016," Smith said. "I think the only thing that can be done is he needs to be revoked, he needs to be sentenced to two years in state jail in each of these cases," he said.
Judge West revoked probation on the first two cases and sentenced Mayfield to two years on each count and sentenced him to two years on each of the other two cases, which will run concurrently.
"Honestly, I wish I could stack these. I wish they were not state jail felonies. I wish we could keep you somewhere for much longer time to protect all of the women that you've victimized," Judge West said in court.
In June 2023, police called Simien and told her they had recognized her in images in his possession.
Police say Mayfield visited grocery stores, retail establishments and gas stations in mid 2023 while recording intimate areas of women in public spaces.
On June 8, 2023 around 6 p.m., an off-duty Beaumont Police officer working security at Walmart was notified that a man in the store took a photo under a woman's skirt.
Mayfield was then taken into custody. Special Crimes detectives responded and began investigating.
Mayfield was interviewed at the police station and placed under arrest the same night. He later bonded out.
Police continued to investigate and on June 13, 2023, a motion to revoke Mayfield's probation was issued.
After the warrant was issued, detectives with the Special Crimes Unit and the Special Assignment Unit arrested Mayfield.
During the course of the investigation, Morrow says detectives discovered evidence of Mayfield having numerous victims.
While committing these crimes, he got extremely close to the victims and several victims noticed and spoke to him, according to police.
In October of 2020, detectives filed two cases of invasive visual recording against Mayfield and he was eventually sentenced to five years on probation.
"He filmed up women's skirts, and we were able to send that to the DA's office. He was convicted on that," Beaumont Police Officer Haley Morrow said.
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