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Fort Worth man sentenced to probation for holding cell phone under woman’s skirt

A Fort Worth man has been sentenced to three years of probation for holding his cell phone under a woman’s skirt on a mall escalator.

Weldon R. Howard, 25, received the sentence last month in Criminal District Court No. 371 on a charge of improper photography/visual recording.

Fort Worth patrol officers responded to a disturbance call about 8:30 p.m. on July 11, 2019, at Hulen Mall, 4850 Overton Ridge Blvd.

A woman told police she was on an escalator in Dillard’s when she felt the phone.

She looked back and saw a man holding his cell phone under her skirt.

That man was later identified as Weldon Howard and he was arrested, police said.

This story was originally published July 21, 2020 at 11:17 AM.

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Domingo Ramirez Jr. was a breaking news reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and spent more than 35 years in journalism.
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