The King County Sheriff’s Office is investigating why a group of Juanita High School girls volleyball players found two hidden video cameras in a bathroom of a warehouse where the team was having a sleepover in Woodinville on Saturday.

“A number of the girls found a camera,” said Cindi West, a spokesperson for the King County Sheriff’s Office, which is contracted out by the Woodinville Police Department.

King County detectives later found there were actually more than one camera.

“We found two hidden cameras – one hidden above the toilet and the other in the ceiling tiles,” said West, noting the cameras were not wireless and were part of a retail home security system. “There were wires running through the ceiling and it was connected to a DVR (digital video recorder) in another room … There is quite a bit of investigation involved with this case.”

West also said KCSO has “a ton of victims to interview.”

She could not release anymore information on the case, as it is still an open investigation.

Shannon Parthemer, Lake Washington School District communications coordinator, said the Sherrif’s Office advised school officials not to comment.

The Juanita High School athletic director and the volleyball coaches did not return several phone calls and emails from the Reporter.

Dale Knapinski, a relative of a player on the team who was notified of the situation just after the girls found the camera, said that his relative told him the event was a  non-sanctioned girls sleepover at a Woodinville warehouse, allegedly owned by one of the coach’s parents. The Sheriff’s Office confirmed the event was not school sanctioned.

The team’s season ended last week and the event was apparently an end-of-season celebration.

The KCSO confirmed that the incident occurred in the 4200 block of Northeast 200th Street in Woodinville. The area is populated by warehouses and businesses.

After the girls found the camera, they “went to the coach’s residence to continue the sleepover, leaving the camera behind,” said Knapinski in an email to the Reporter, adding, “We were initially told by students that (a coach) told the kids not to report the discovery of the camera to their parents or police. It is unclear why they were told that, although some students thought they shouldn’t be hindering the investigation.”

Knapinski said he believes a security guard for the common area was initially contacted about the camera, but that it’s unclear who actually reported the incident to the police.

Knapinski said he went to the warehouse and saw the owners removing additional items from the business in the middle of the night.

“Police followed up on a tip and the items were reportedly recovered from the business owner’s residence the following morning,” said Knapinski, who talked to police at the scene. “I’m not sure why the coach didn’t contact parents right at the scene. The whole incident stinks.”

The Reporter will update this story as more information becomes available.

Editor Carrie Wood contributed to this report.