POLK COUNTY, Fla. – A 60-year-old Lakeland man suspected of placing a hidden camera inside a women’s restroom was found dead Tuesday morning in Colt Creek State Park from an apparent suicide, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies located the body of Sean Michael Krause at 8:28 a.m. in a wooded area of the park. Krause had been the subject of a search that began Monday after an employee discovered a recording device inside an employee-only county facility.
The investigation started on Monday, September 21, 2026, when deputies were called to the Polk County Tax Collector’s Office Information Technology building in Bartow. An employee reported finding a small camera hidden inside a disposable toilet seat cover dispenser in the women’s restroom…