"Dr." Lee Arrested In LA

If you've watched local television at all for the past fifteen years or so, then you'll definitely have heard of the man who calls himself Dr. Kevin Lee. He's the acupuncturist who boasts that he can fix any kind of bodily pain.

Well tonight he's the one causing pain, and more than just pain it's mental distress and agony for dozens of clients who went to him not knowing that he had hidden cameras videotaping them getting undressed and in other compromised positions.

The news that he was wanted in Belize has been bubbling under the surface for weeks, but it broke today in the Taiwanese media, with reports from Los Angeles that he had been arrested there on an international warrant from Interpol.

Here's what we've been able to unearth locally:..

Jules Vasquez Reporting
Just looking at this billboard for Dr. Kevin Lee of a half-naked woman receiving a massage - you might suspect something is up. But - according to reports - hundreds of people came to his clinic here at 35 Freetown Road where he practiced acupuncture.

The woman on the lower floor said he had left the country two weeks earlier and his name has been crudely spray painted off the verandah.

Well he's no longer working anywhere. According to international news reports, Lee has been arrested in Los Angeles after complaints emerged in Belize that he had secretly taped his clients undressing themselves in his clinic.

An Interpol warrant was issued for his arrests because the clandestine videotaping reportedly involved "indecent images of well-known socialites and diplomats' wives."

There are reportedly 600 files - which were discovered on Lee's computer by a repair technician.

Belize police are in possession of those hard drives but would not say much about the case:

Sgt. Fitzroy Yearwood, Police Press Officer
"There are actually several allegations that Mr. Lee may have videoed some of his patients. I know that we have contacted Interpol, and through our international counterparts, we know that he is presently detained in another country and hopefully will be back in Belize soon, that would help our investigation. We have several allegations, and we do have evidence, so it's just for us to have him here and see what is the next step in our investigation."

Taiwanese expatriate Kevin Lee was arrested in Los Angeles on Monday for alleged cases of sexual assault in Belize which he secretly filmed. The crimes were brought to light after a technician who fixed his computer discovered 600 video clips containing indecent images of well-known socialites and diplomats' wives. Interpol and local police have already started an investigation into the allegations.

Lee is a Chinese medicine and acupuncture practitioner who has been living in Belize for the past two decades. He became a local household name as "Dr. Kevin Lee" after he cured a local television station owner's wife.

The technician who found the video clips attempted to blackmail Lee at first, but after the attempt failed, the video was spread online and caused outrage among senior local officials. The victims included female foreign diplomats and their family members, according to China Times.

Taiwan's representative office in Belize has confirmed Lee's arrest but said the Taiwanese national was detained for secretly filming his customers undressing themselves, not for sexual assault. The Belize government said that it will cooperate with the office to prevent the local Taiwanese community from being affected by the case.

According to reports from multiple Taiwanese news sources, "the clandestine recordings were brought to light after a technician who fixed his computer discovered 600 video clips containing indecent images of well-known socialites and diplomats' wives." "Those reports say that the technician who found the video clips attempted to blackmail Lee at first, but after the attempt failed, the video was spread online and caused outrage among senior local officials." We stress that these reports have not been confirmed by police in Belize and are from multiple Taiwanese outlets.

Those reports also quote the Taiwanese embassy in Belize as saying that "Lee was detained for secretly filming his customers undressing themselves, not for sexual assault."

Again, not confirmed by local police, but specifics are hard to come by - except to say it is entirely a mess and one that quite understandably has any number of local patrons of his very concerned tonight. We'll keep following the story.

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