ESPN Racing Producer Neil Goldberg Charged in 'Peeping Tom' Case

Neil Goldberg, ESPN's top NASCAR producer and a veteran of television motorsports for almost 30 years, was arrested Tuesday and charged with several crimes in connection with an alleged "peeping tom" incident involving a neighbor, the Hartford (Conn.) Courant reported Wednesday.

Goldberg, 52, who lives in the Farmington, Conn., complex where the incident happened, was arrested on a warrant that charged him with public indecency, simple trespass, disorderly conduct and breach of peace, police told the paper.

The incident for which he was charged happened last month when a woman walking her dog called police and told officers she saw a man standing on a stool and peering into a window while he masturbated, the paper reported. When the man noticed the woman walking her dog, he stopped and went back inside his home, she told police.

After further investigation, Goldberg was identified as a suspect and police told the Courant he admitted watching his neighbor get dressed in her bedroom. He turned himself in Tuesday to be formally charged and was released on $1,000 bail. He is scheduled to answer the charges in a Hartford courtroom later this month.

Goldberg, a senior motorsports producer at the network, joined ESPN in 1981 and began working on racing telecasts in 1982. He was part of the original ESPN motorsports team that included Bob Jenkins and the late Larry Nuber as announcers and was responsible for greatly increasing and popularizing telecasts of NASCAR and other types of racing. He moved to FOX in 2001 when ESPN was outbid and shut out of NASCAR coverage, but returned to the network in 2007 when it resumed coverage of NASCAR racing.

ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz (KROO'-leh-witz) says the company is looking into the issue, and Goldberg will not be producing this week's NASCAR coverage.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.