FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are working in conjunction with federal investigators in an attempt to identify more potential victims of a Royal Caribbean cabin attendant accused of placing hidden cameras in bathrooms, an agency spokesperson said Thursday.
Deputies arrested Arvin Joseph Mirasol, 34, a Phillippine national, on Sunday after the Symphony of the Seas returned to Port Everglades. He had been detained on the ship, authorities said, after a woman and her two young daughters found a hidden camera in their cabin bathroom on Feb. 25, one day after the cruise set sail.
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Homeland Security Investigations agents said Mirasol additionally admitted to serially spying as soon as he started working on the Symphony of the Seas in December. They said he even confessed that he’d “hide under the bed” to record girls and women with his cellphone, saying, “If I like who is in that room, I place (a camera)” and that “I want to control it, but I can’t.”
Mirasol is not only facing multiple state video voyeurism charges, but federal charges of production and possession of child pornography.
A BSO news release Thursday states that working with Royal Caribbean, “investigators have obtained copies of the Symphony of the Seas manifests during the time Arvin Mirasol worked on the ship.”
“BSO (Special Victims Unit) detectives and HSI agents are in the process of contacting passengers who stayed in cabins Mirasol was responsible for from December 2023 until the date of his arrest on March 3, to identify any more victims,” BSO spokesperson Veda Coleman-Wright said in the release.
A Royal Caribbean spokesperson, in a statement to Local 10 News on Monday, following Mirasol’s arrest, said the cruise line has “zero tolerance for this unacceptable behavior.”
“We immediately reported this to law enforcement and terminated the crew member, and we will continue to fully cooperate with authorities,” the statement read.
Mirasol remained held without bond in BSO’s Paul Rein Detention Facility in Pompano Beach as of Thursday, according to jail records.