A D.C. police officer has been charged with voyeurism for allegedly photographing a female witness without her consent.

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A D.C. police officer has been arrested and charged with voyeurism for taking inappropriate photos of a partially undressed female witness while he was executing a search warrant with other officers.

NBC4 was first to report the news.

According to a police affidavit, Larry Garrett was part of a group of officers who went to serve an arrest warrant at the Marbury Plaza apartment complex in Southeast in February. They knocked on the door of an apartment and announced themselves as police who had a warrant, and a woman answered the door dressed in a pair of leggings and a bra. (She wasn’t the target of the warrant; another person inside the apartment was.)

Police then stayed inside the apartment as they awaited approval of the search warrant, according to the affidavit.

After an hour and a half inside the apartment, as police were still waiting on approval of the warrant, the document says Garrett took out his MPD-issued cell phone, opened the camera, and “zoomed the focus of the camera to its maximum setting.”

“The defendant discreetly maneuvered the phone to focus on the victim and the area surrounding her,” the affidavit says. Then, he allegedly took a photo of her that captured her body from the neck down, still in her bra and leggings.

He then “zoomed in on the picture, focusing on the victim’s pubic area,” according to the affidavit. Afterwards, he exited the photo, reopened it, and then deleted it.

On Friday, agents with MPD’s Internal Affairs Division arrested Garrett. He has since been charged with voyeurism for allegedly recording the woman without her consent while she was partially undressed.

Garrett has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Through his attorney, he declined to comment for this story.

Garrett has been with the department since 2006, according to a statement from MPD. The department says it learned about the photos when attorneys were reviewing police body worn cameras as part of the search warrant case. The department’s Internal Affairs Division then investigated the allegations and recommended that the U.S. Attorney’s Office bring criminal charges against Garrett. The department has revoked Garrett’s police powers as the investigation continues.