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After several law firms struggled for months to serve the man accused of filming nearly 50 partially or fully nude women in a San Luis Obispo County gym, one was finally able to track him down — in Ohio.
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Kyle L. Combs, 40, of Grover Beach was charged by the SLO County District Attorney’s Office with 12 counts of peeping in private rooms, a misdemeanor violation of California’s invasion of privacy law, after allegedly secretly recording women at varying degrees of nudity while they stood inside tanning booths at the Arroyo Grande Planet Fitness at 1576 West Branch St. last year.
The Arroyo Grande Police Department found more than 50 videos of 47 unique victims on Combs’ phone, all filmed in the gym’s private tanning booths between January 2025 and December 2025, an April 16 news release from the agency said.
Combs has also been sued by 15 different women across five civil cases — including a new complaint filed on Sept. 10 — for allegedly taking illicit videos, but several of the law firms were unable to serve him for months and were convinced he was evading service.
Hadsell Stormer Renick and Dai LLP, the first firm to sue Combs originally on behalf of one 18-year-old female college student on April 28, attempted to serve him five times at his gated Grover Beach apartment complex between June 23 and July 5. Another firm served the wrong man entirely.
Hadsell Stormer Renick and Dai filed a Proof of Service of Summons with the court on Monday that said Combs was personally served at an apartment complex in Columbus, Ohio, on Sept. 4.
Attorney Randy Renick did not immediately respond to The Tribune’s questions about how they found Combs or what he was doing in Ohio.
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None of the other firms appear to have served Combs yet.
Combs was arraigned on his criminal charges in the SLO County Superior Court and pleaded not guilty on July 23, but he did not appear in court, represented instead by his lawyer. Under California Penal Code 977, most misdemeanor suspects can appear in court hearings through their counsel.
At the time, Deputy District Attorney Sarah Merson said that he was “not in the area anymore.”
Criminal defendants are not required to stay within the district where they are charged unless specifically stipulated by a court order.
As a term of Combs’ release, he was ordered to stay away from the Arroyo Grande Planet Fitness, but the judge did not require that he stay in SLO County.
This story was originally published September 28, 2026 at 4:34 PM with the headline “Lawyers find man suspected of filming naked women in SLO County gym — in Ohio.”
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