AUGUSTA — A Hallowell man who police say spied on his ex-girlfriend using hidden cameras and recorded her with a handheld camera while hiding in her home has been indicted on stalking, burglary and other charges.

An Augusta woman told police that in April 2022 her ex-boyfriend Jeffrey S. King, 35, broke into her apartment, hid in their son’s playroom and recorded her while she was with another man, according to an affidavit filed by Augusta police Detective Matthew Estes. She said he sent her the video afterward.

Estes viewed the video and said in his affidavit that it appears to have clearly been taken by somebody who was holding the recording device, because the video was moving around slightly and appeared to have been taken in such a manner that the person taking it was trying to be discreet. The woman provided text messages between her and King in which he allegedly admitted to breaking in and recording her.

The woman also reported to police she had found information on King’s phone regarding hidden cameras he allegedly put in her apartment, including one described as a light switch camera. She said she didn’t know it was there until one day King, while at her apartment, stated, “You’re going to hate me after this,” and removed a light switch in her apartment that was a hidden camera. He allegedly told her he had replaced her actual light switch with one that was a camera and it had been there for months. She said she also found, in his phone, a photograph of him holding a hidden camera smoke detector next to the smoke detector from her apartment, and she showed police a screenshot of an email to King, confirming the purchase of a smoke detector camera.

The woman also told police that in May 2023 she discovered King had hidden audio recording devices in her bedroom after he played the audio to her.

And the woman said in November 2023 she had a friend staying the night and King, who she said had a key to the apartment but did not live there, came walking into her bedroom, prompting the man to run out of the apartment, with King behind him in pursuit. She said King pushed the man down the stairs and assaulted him but the man declined to press charges. After that incident. King returned to her apartment, went through the man’s wallet and took her laptop and cellphone, although he later returned those items.

King was indicted May 21 by a Kennebec County grand jury on charges of domestic violence stalking, burglary, two counts of criminal trespass, and three counts of violation of privacy.

An indictment is not a finding of guilt but indicates enough evidence exists to move forward to trial.