West Des Moines Police are investigating whether criminal charges are warranted in the case of a Farm Bureau employee behaving badly.
Officers were called to the organization’s 5400 University Drive office Monday to respond to a criminal mischief compliant.
A Farm Bureau vice president told authorities that one of the agency’s employees had been caught on video camera urinating on the office chairs of four female co-workers. The suspect, a 59-year-old man from Des Moines, was fired the same day police were informed of the incident.
The man had worked in the organization’s information technology department and had access to all the company’s computers and the employee database, Farm Bureau officials told the police.
According to police documents, the man would look up employee photos in the agency’s database. He “would pick out the attractive females and then on off-hours, he would come into work, go to their desk, and urinate on their chairs.”
Employees first started complaining about stains on their chairs in October 2011. Surveillance cameras were installed in February.
The value of the damaged chairs was estimated at $4,500.