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  • A Chicago-area man accused of taking surreptitious nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews in a hotel room was arrested at Chicago's O'Hare airport, the FBI said in a statement.

    Michael David Barrett, 48, faces federal charges of interstate stalking for taking the videos, posting the videos online and trying to sell them to celebrity Web site TMZ.com, the FBI said. He's scheduled to make an initial court appearance Saturday morning in US District Court in Chicago.

    The charges were filed in Los Angeles, where TMZ.com is based. Andrews is identified in the federal complaint as E.A.

    Barrett, of Westmont, Illinois, was arrested after returning from a trip to Buffalo, New York, authorities said.

    An ESPN spokesman contacted early today said he was not aware of the arrest and the network would comment later that day.

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    Seven of the eight videos posted online were taken through a modified door peephole while Andrews was alone and undressed in hotel rooms in Nashville, Tennessee, in September 2008. Investigators believe the eighth video was taken in a hotel in Milwaukee in July 2008.

    FBI agents believe Barrett requested a Nashville hotel room next to Andrews' and rigged the door's peephole.

    Barrett tried to sell the videos to TMZ.com, but an employee there told Andrews' attorneys, according to the complaint.

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