LISBON –The man accused of secretly taking videos of women and girls last year in the Walmart dressing room and the Planet Fitness locker room, both in Calcutta, won’t be getting out of prison early.

Columbiana County Common Pleas Court Judge Scott Washam recently denied the motion for judicial release filed on behalf of Shane Lee Wright, 25, Laredo Drive, Negley.

Wright was sentenced in late September 2025 to 10 months in prison for fifth-degree felony voyeurism and misdemeanor possessing criminal tools. According to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, he arrived in October and his expected release date isn’t until July this year.

In his entry regarding the denial of the request for release from prison, Washam pointed out that Wright wasn’t sentenced to the maximum or to consecutive terms and the sentence protects the public and punishes the defendant appropriately.

Washam also recounted the facts of the case how there were numerous, separate unwitting female victims and Wright used his cell phone to record videos of them in various stages of undress, both in a private department store changing room and the locker room of a fitness facility. He noted what Wright had to go through to get to his vantage point looking down on the locker room.

“These are low level criminal charges, but that is not to say they are insignificant,” Washam said.

Wright was originally charged in August 2024 in county Municipal Court with fifth-degree felony voyeurism and misdemeanors of possessing criminal tools, inducing panic and eight counts of voyeurism.

The victim in the charge for the plea was identified as a 15-year-old who should have had a reasonable expectation of privacy on Aug. 12, 2024 at Walmart in the changing room. The charge said that from Aug. 12, 2024 through Aug. 23, 2024, the day he was caught, Wright did “knowingly commit trespass or otherwise secretly or surreptitiously videotape, film, broadcase, stream or other record” the victim. The criminal tool was his cell phone.

Also in Common Pleas Court:

— David R. Johnson, 38, Weirton, W.Va., was sentenced to a prison term of three to four and a half years for second-degree felony aggravated possession of drugs and misdemeanors of possessing drug abuse instruments and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia. He was also given a mandatory fine of $7,500 for the charges which date back to May 9, 2020 for possessing methamphetamine in an amount equal or greater than five times bulk but less than 50 times bulk, along with drug paraphernalia and drug abuse instruments. Johnson also pleaded guilty to possession of a deadly weapon while under detention, a third-degree felony, and was sentenced to nine months in prison. The nine-month term was ordered served at the same time as the three to four and a half years. While in jail, Johnson possessed a deadly weapon identified as a shank on Oct. 10, 2025. He received credit for 54 days already served.