Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Alleged Serial Peeping Tom Caught in Flowood

Rankin County has a Tom problem.  No, not an Uncle Tom, but a peeping Tom.  Zeryk Smith stands accused of secretly filming women undressing at Target and Lakeshore Pointe Apartments with his phone.  

Flowood Police were called to the Target store on April 25 to investigate a possible case of voyeurism.  A woman was changing clothes is a dressing room and noticed a cellphone was protruding underneath the door with the camera pointed at her.  

A detective entered a screen shot of the surveillance video into the facial recognition software.  The system identified Smith from his Northwest Rankin High School athletics photo. Smith played on the NRHS football team. 

The police caught Smith a few days later.  Smith provided a story that did not seem to square with reality. 







Unfortunately for Zeryk Smith, the Flowood police managed to access his phone and found Smith was allegedly quite the peeping Tom. 


The alleged Lakeshore Pointe incident took place on March 30.  

Rankin County deputies investigated and charged Smith with two more counts of voyerism.  His bond was set at $150,000 ($50,000 per charge).  



24 comments:

Anonymous said...

Peeping Toms nearly always leave some physical DNA evidence at the scene of the crime.

Anonymous said...

looks like he went
Ber-zerk

Anonymous said...

Glad they caught him. Now put him away.

Anonymous said...

Mommy, see-man peeping.

Anonymous said...

He will continue the behavior. Only question will he escalate the behavior?

Anonymous said...

He will be one of the most popular inmates-

Anonymous said...

His legal name is Zeryk Off Smith.

Anonymous said...

As Rankin County history continually demonstrates, there's nothin' like Football, to straighten a boy out!

Anonymous said...

Great job by the Flowood PD!

Anonymous said...

Brilliant! 12:10 Thanks for that! Always good to see evidence of someone's grasp of Phonetics.

Anonymous said...

"facial recognition" software ? Big Brother is watching you !

Anonymous said...

he's still breathing.....amazing

Anonymous said...

@1:13 PM You are very welcome. I am glad to do my part.

Anonymous said...

To bad a dad or husband wasn't there to beat the DNA out of his head and smear it up to the front of the store.

Hookah said...

District 5

Anonymous said...

Nice little joke if correct. I don’t know, but I took his name to be pronounced “zuh-REEK,” not “Zerk.” Names of this stripe, made up to sound classy and elegant, often have an accented syllable somewhere in them.

Anonymous said...

Dude looks like he could date plenty of chicks….so strange to me

Anonymous said...

Did the cops get a confession or not a peep out of him?

Anonymous said...

He did the crime in the wrong county. He will do some jail time. If he had did it at the target in the neighboring county nothing would had been done to him.

Anonymous said...

lol!

Anonymous said...

Judging by most of the posts that are allowed, above, the blog owner is obviously enjoying this thread a bit too much.

Anonymous said...

When he is issued his obligatory cellphone in prison he will again be able to take photos under the bathroom stalls or showers. One time.

Anonymous said...

So much Tom-foolery on this blog.

Anonymous said...

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


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