Dee sentenced to 14 years

A man previously convicted for invasive visual recording in Cass County in 2017 has been sentenced to 14 years behind bars stemming from a more recent incident in Bowie County.

Jarrod Wade Dee, 37, pleaded guilty to seven counts of invasive visual recording Tuesday, January 24 at Bi-State Justice Center in downtown Texarkana, Texas as part of a plea agreement.

Dee was facing 51 felony counts of invasive visual recording in Bowie County after being accused of using a covert camera to film a woman and her two daughters in the bathroom of the family’s home, according to previous Journal-Sun reports.

The woman and her husband found the concealed recording device taped beneath a bathroom cabinet in their home on Dec. 5, 2021. Dee, a longtime friend of the husband, was living in a trailer on the family’s property on Clear Springs Road in Texarkana, Texas.

Dee had full access to their home when the couple was present, according to a probable cause affidavit.

After removing the device from its hiding place, the couple placed the storage disc on their computer where they watched a video that allegedly depicted Dee hiding the device under the bathroom cabinet.

Upon learning the device had been discovered, Dee left the property and was arrested two days later on Dec. 7, 2021.

The entire contents of the SD card, recovered by BCSO, revealed recordings of the couple’s 11-year-old daughter as she undressed, entered the shower, exited the shower, and redressed.

BCSO was contacted by the mother once again in February 2022 to report that Dee’s sister had gotten in touch with her to tell her that Dee had left some items in his sister’s care prior to his arrest, previous reports state.

The box of Dee’s possessions that were turned over by his sister allegedly included photographs printed of the 11-year-old, the mother, and a second daughter whose age was not disclosed, as well as additional devices.

The following month, Dee was indicted for a single count. However, a Bowie County grand jury issued six more indictments, with a total of 50 additional counts of invasive visual recording involving the mother and both girls, according to court records. The recordings were allegedly made between August 29, 2021, and Dec. 5, 2021.

Each count was punishable by up to two years in state jail, though prosecutors had the option of seeking to enhance punishment based on Dee’s previous conviction in Cass County Each count is punishable by up to two years in state jail, though prosecutors could seek to enhance punishment based on Dee’s previous conviction in Cass County.

Due to a plea deal, Dee, pleaded guilty to seven counts of invasive visual recording before 5th District Judge Bill Miller Dee was given the maximum twoyear term in state prison on each count, with Judge Miller ordering that the terms run consecutively for a total sentence of 14 years.

In 2017, Cass County convicted Dee of invasive visual recording after he was caught secretly filming the daughter of a woman he was living with in Bloomburg, Texas in July 2015.

According to court documents, the Bloomburg victim testified that because there was only one restroom in the home, she would inform others in the household when she was planning to take a shower so that if anyone needed to use the restroom they could take time to do so before she went to shower.

The victim told the court that just before she would enter the bathroom to shower, Dee would “enter and then exit the bathroom” and that there was no “gap in between” Dee’s exit from the bathroom and her entry. She said she was “just waiting for him to get out” so she could shower.

In July 2015, the Cass County victim’s mother discovered recordings of her daughter on a camera that she had seen Dee holding.

After searching the contents of Dee’s camera, the victim’s mother found footage of her daughter in the bathroom, according to testimony.

The victim testified that her mother showed her footage and that “the recording showed her in the bathroom, entering and exiting the shower.”

Cass County sentenced Dee to two years in a state jail for invasive visual recording after the 2017 trial.

Dee has currently been behind bars since his December 2021 arrest in Bowie County and was ordered on January 23, 2023, to serve out a 14-year sentence.