Oklahoma City police arrested a 40-year-old Griffin Media supervisor after investigators said hidden cameras were discovered in private dressing room areas at the company’s building on March 24. Officers were called after a report of unauthorized photographic and video equipment in the rooms, and janitorial staff later found two cameras concealed inside two separate dressing rooms.
Griffin Media personnel handed officers two cameras and two portable battery packs. The cameras had been mounted to adhesive Velcro strips beneath clothing racks, according to the affidavit, which said they were placed in a clandestine manner in an area where people would have a reasonable expectation of privacy. The supervisor, Darrell Vannostran, was taken into custody on a complaint of use of photo equipment in clandestine manner in private place.
What investigators said happened next matters because the devices did not just sit in place. After the cameras were processed, footage showed they had recorded multiple people using the dressing rooms in private settings. Authorities also determined that Vannostran was in the building every time the cameras were moved, and the affidavit alleges his electronic devices had cached images from the dressing room videos.
Griffin Media is the site where the cameras were found, and the allegation centers on a place meant to be private. That is what gives the case its force: the cameras were hidden, the footage captured people who expected privacy, and the person accused of placing or moving them supervised the company’s photography and videography personnel. For readers following related local coverage, Bay News 9 also reported on the Rays’ return to Tropicana Field for their first MLB game since 2024.
Vannostran’s arrest leaves one central issue for investigators and the company alike: how long the cameras were active before janitors found them, and how many people may have been recorded before anyone knew the dressing rooms had been compromised.