SCOTT GRUBB

MARQUETTE — An Iron Mountain man accused of placing video cameras in two Kingsford homes and recording unclothed people now faces new unrelated charges that include child sexually abusive activity.

Scott Andrew Grubb, 46, was arraigned Friday in Dickinson County District Court on five counts each of child sexually abusive activity and using a computer to commit a crime; both are 20-year felonies.

A probable cause conference was set for Dec. 28 and a preliminary examination for Jan. 4.

These new charges resulted from further investigation done by the computer crimes unit of the Michigan State Police, the Marquette County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office stated in a news release Friday.

The MSP had received a hard drive, iPhones, iPads and a laptop computer as evidence after Grubb initially was charged in August, according to an earlier report.

Grubb is accused of downloading multiple images of child sexually abusive material from the internet, according to Marquette County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.

These charges are not related to any images or videos that may have been created from what Grubb is accused of doing in the original case, the Marquette County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office stressed.

“This information is being provided to avoid speculation about the nature of the new charges,” said Andrew Griffin, Marquette County chief assistant prosecutor. “Mr. Grubb is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of all charges, in both cases.”

The Marquette County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office was assigned to this and the earlier case after both the Dickinson County Prosecutor’s Office and Dickinson County District Court Judge Julie LaCost removed themselves due to a conflict of interest.

Grubb was arraigned Aug. 22 on charges of home invasion-second degree, a 15-year felony; three counts of using computers to commit a crime, a seven-year felony; and three counts of capturing or distributing the image of an unclothed person, a five-year felony. That case now is in 41st Circuit Court.

Grubb on Aug. 13 reportedly admitted to Kingsford Public Safety officers he has had a pornography addiction for most of his life and he was a “voyeur” who was “turned on” by watching people, according to the police report.

Grubb told police his family and the neighboring family were good friends and he had permission to be in the neighbors’ residence even when they weren’t home, according to the report.

Near the end of July 2017, Grubb said he placed a camera in the ceiling exhaust fan in the neighbor’s bathroom, the report states. He would enter the home and change the battery about every other day, according to the report.

Grubb reportedly said he later placed a second camera and battery pack in that home, then installed a third camera and battery pack in the bathroom exhaust fan of another neighbor’s home, the report states.

In December 2017, Grubb’s wife found pornography on his computer, prompting her to restrict his internet access and him to go to counseling, according to the report.

The neighbors didn’t find out about the cameras until August, according to the report.