NORTHAMPTON — A former Easthampton firefighter has been sentenced to serve eight months in jail after he admitted using secret cameras to spy on colleagues in the women’s locker room at the fire department where he worked in 2022.

The Northwestern district attorney’s office reported that Nicholas Tillman, 39, of Westfield, pleaded guilty April 24 before Northampton District Court Judge Brandon Freeman to three counts of videotaping intimate parts of a person without consent; three counts of videotaping an unsuspecting nude person; and a single count of attempted illegal wiretap.

Tillman will be on probation for two years after his incarceration. During that time, he must stay away from the Easthampton Fire Department, have no contact with the two female victims in the case, complete sex offender treatment and immediately surrender any photos or videos unlawfully obtained to the Easthampton Police Department.

He is also barred from working as a first responder during his probationary period.

“The defendant’s actions were a severe violation of the safety and privacy the two victims deservedly expected in the locker room at their workplace and the trust they had in their fellow first responder,” stated Deputy District Attorney Jennifer Suhl, who prosecuted the case. “The victims showed incredible strength and fortitude in delivering powerful victim impact statements in court, detailing the significant effect the defendant’s criminal actions have had, and will continue to have, on their lives.”

The case came to light after an Easthampton firefighter discovered a secret camera in the women’s locker room and reported the matter to a supervisor who immediately notified police.

Tillman was identified as the suspect after detectives put their own camera in the locker room to watch whoever entered and tried to retrieve the cameras.

Easthampton detectives worked with a computer forensics expert with the Northampton Police Department and discovered images of women changing and showering in the locker room gleaned from micro SD cards linked to the secret cameras.

Additional forensic digital evidence retrieval and analysis was performed by the Digital Evidence Laboratory of the attorney general’s office at the request of the Northwestern district attorney’s office.