Viral Video: Woman Chases Sex Offender Trying to Film Her at Target

When a convicted voyeur approached Candace Spivey in Target talking up some story about shopping for a dress for his wife, Spivey recognized the man and the exact story he was telling; he had apparently already tried this tactic on her a couple years earlier at another store.

The man, identified by police as Jeffrey Polizzi, had been convicted in 2009 for “taking photographs of women in dressing rooms” (something that will be a lot easier for people like him to do at Target now, what with the store’s wonderful new “inclusive” restroom policy that allows men to use the women’s restrooms and changing rooms).

So she flipped on her phone’s camera and started screaming for security to call the cops. He took off running.

She chased the man all the way out into the parking lot, knowing he couldn’t go far because his vehicle was parked there (duh).

What he did next is really stupid.

Candace describes the incident on Facebook:

ATTENTION JACKSONVILLE:

I was approached by this man yesterday in the bikini section of Target, out here in Yulee. Now the thing is is that the same guy approached me two years ago here in Jacksonville at a Publix while I was shopping. The locations were about an hour apart in distance from each other.

When he approached me yesterday he did not remember who I was, until I called him out on it in this video. When he approached me in Publix two years ago he had two small children with him under the age of three in his shopping cart. The basket of his shopping cart was filled with multiple different types of razors that were for both men and women. He starts out his conversation with the same punch line he uses here in the very beginning of this video saying, “Hey there I don’t mean to bother you but I just bought this maxi dress for my wife at Ross and I was kinda worried about the sheerness of it.”

He says his wife has put on weight after giving birth and he uses her as a way to start asking questions that get extremely inappropriate. For instance he starts asking his wife should wear the maxi dress with no panties, and if she should shave “down there” trying to make it seem very innocent in the way he’s asking. He then asks if you’re wearing panties, etc.

Whiles he’s asking these questions he’s filming you with his cell phone, and I knew he was by the way he was holding his phone. I had this feeling there was way more to what he was doing than just asking questions, it was very routine for him like he’s been doing this for a long time. So I went immediately to the front and reported him, they called the cops and he was banned from that publix. It was NOT illegal what he was doing.

However when this incident happened yesterday that was the second encounter that I have had with this guy and this time it was much worse.

After I called him out in this video when he gives me his punch line and as I’m staring at his basket full of razors, he clearly doesn’t remember who I am, and then the shock rushes over his face and he starts to run, so I chase after his sorry ass because I wanted his tag info. I wanted this guy caught. There was something not right about him.

He then took off on foot to the McDonalds across the way right by the Target, is there for about five minutes when we’re all waiting for him to come back because his truck was parked in Target’s parking lot. So he comes running back, jumped in his truck, spun out of the parking lot and he just so happen to spin out onto A1A right in front of the cop that was coming to target for the incident. He ran from the cops, they had to chase him. They finally got him to pull over, he wouldn’t get out of his truck and they had to pull him out at gunpoint.

So when they ran his background he has a history of video voyeurism and has been in trouble for putting cameras in his shoes and filming under girls skirts, in the dressing rooms when girls are changing into bikinis, etc. He filmed three different girls in one location at Neptune Beach. He’s been all over Jacksonville.

He told the police he has a problem with pornography and that he didn’t know what to do about it.

If you guys could please share this and anyone who has possibly had encounter with this creep to please contact the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office.

This guy is a huge creep and he’s only being charged with reckless driving, which in this case yesterday he didn’t do anything YET because he ran off. In not concerned about charges, I mean I am but I’m more concerned with his face getting out there and him being stopped.

He has approached minors as well, and there’s no telling how he could easily manipulate a young mind and how far he could take the situation.

The man was charged with reckless driving after fleeing the scene. Police are also investigating Polizzi for harassment claims.