Man arrested for filming ESPN's Erin Andrews naked

In July, the sexy ESPN sportscaster became the target of a peephole pervert who surreptitiously shot a video of her walking around her hotel room naked. Not only this, the alleged stalker even tried to sell the video clips to celebrity Web site TMZ.com and later posted them on the Internet.

Chicago-area man charged
The feds have now arrested a man who they claim is at the centre of ESPN reporter’s nude video case.

FBI officials said they have arrested 48-year-old Michael David Barrett of Westmont, Illinois, at Chicago O'Hare International Airport on Friday.

Barrett has been arrested on federal charges of stalking the ESPN reporter, filming surreptitious videos of ESPN personality Erin Andrews while she was nude in two hotel rooms, and posting them online after trying to sell them to the celebrity gossip Web site TMZ.com, according to AP.

The charges were filed in Los Angeles, where TMZ is based, late Friday and the 31-year-old Andrews is identified in the criminal complaint as E.A.

What the complaint alleges?
According to E! Online, the federal complaint alleges that Barrett stalked Andrew "with the intent to harass, to place under surveillance with intent to harass and intimidate, and to cause substantial emotional distress to a person in another state, namely E.A., used facilities of interstate commerce, including cellular telephone networks, electronic mail, and Internet Web sites, to engage in a course of conduct that caused substantial emotional distress to E.A."

As per the criminal complaint, Barrett checked into the same room where Andrews stayed. The complaint also alleges that he specifically asked for a room adjacent to Andrews when making his reservation.

When and where videos were shot?
The videos that surfaced in July were taken through a modified peephole while Andrews was undressing in two different hotel rooms.

AP reports that seven of the eight videos were shot while Andrews was alone and undressed in hotel rooms in Nashville, Tenn., in September 2008, and the investigators believe the eighth video was taken in a hotel in Milwaukee in July 2008.

Andrews, who works as a sideline reporter traveling around the country covering college football games, appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" last month where she told the show host how much upset she was after the nude video clips of her began circulating on the Internet.

"I kept screaming: 'I'm done. My career is over. I'm done. Get it off. Get it off the Internet,'" Andrews told Winfrey as she remembered talking to her father. "They thought I was physically injured, (that's) how bad I was screaming."