VIRGINIA BEACH (VA)
Virginian-Pilot [Norfolk VA]
July 1, 2026
By Nori Leybengrub
The 46-year-old was charged in connection with seven incidents that began in March of last year.
A man pleaded guilty Monday to 16 misdemeanor charges related to taking videos of men inside public restrooms last year at several places in Virginia Beach.
Aloysius Marcus Albritton, 46, was charged in connection with seven incidents that began in March 2025. Several men told authorities that Albritton filmed them as they used the bathroom, according to court records.
He pleaded guilty to eight counts of use of a peephole to view a non-consenting person, seven counts of unlawful creation and one count of attempted unlawful creation. All charges are Class I misdemeanors.Shortly after 3 a.m. May 20 of last year, a man who was identified by his initials in court records noticed Albritton in the parking lot of the Chimney Hill Crunch Fitness. Surveillance footage of the gym entrance shows Albritton followed the man as he walked into the gym and headed for the restroom, according to court records.
The man saw Albritton’s feet disappear in a neighboring stall and looked up to see Albritton attempting to film him. He chased Albritton out of the restroom and gym, stopping short of the dark parking lot.
After the man reported the encounter to Virginia Beach police, detectives arrested Albritton and found several videos on his phone of other strangers in public restrooms.
The videos were taken in bathrooms at Wawa convenience stores, a Kroger grocery store, a Lowe’s Home Improvement store and inside Lynnhaven Mall. Albritton would stand on a toilet seat behind a locked stall door and sneak his phone lens above stall dividers to film, court records say.
For seven years, Albritton was an executive administrator at New Hope Church in Norfolk. His image shows up as Bishop Marcus Albritton in advertisements for religious services with The Hope of Glory Ministries Inc. After an arrest in December 2016, Albritton told a magistrate he was a senior pastor of four years, according to court records.
The church declined to comment on Albritton’s case and declined to share his employment status.
Albritton’s guilty pleas came nearly a decade after allegations first surfaced against him for filming in public bathrooms.
In 2018, court records show Albritton pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated sexual battery for sexually assaulting a man with intellectual disabilities in a Williams Farm Recreation Center bathroom.
In May 2017, Albritton was accused of filming a police officer while he urinated in the bathroom of a Virginia Beach Wawa.
The charge was dropped because prosecutors could not prove a video was taken of the officer urinating after he stopped Albritton before he began recording, according to a spokesperson of the Virginia Beach Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office.
In October 2016, a Norfolk man told police that Albritton slid his cellphone underneath the stall he was using in a Military Circle mall bathroom. That charge was also later dropped.
In 2019, prosecutors in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, charged him with filming a 19-year-old in a Walmart bathroom. The charges were later dropped, except for one charge – falsely identifying himself to police to avoid prosecution.
Albritton is being held in the Virginia Beach jail. His sentencing is scheduled for July.