Laine Hardy, the Season 17 winner of “American Idol,” was arrested by the Louisiana State Police on Friday and booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison for allegedly spying on his ex-girlfriend at her Louisiana State University residence.

A rep from the Lsu Office of Communications & University Relations confirmed to TheWrap that Hardy has been arrested on a violation of Louisiana Statute 15:1303, “Interception and Disclosure of Wire, Electronic, or Oral Communication.”

Hardy is accused of planting a recording device in his ex-girlfriend’s room at Azalea Hall “to monitor her conversations” when they broke up. The two dated from November 2021 through February 2022, according to the New York Post. Hardy is a Louisiana native who lives in Livingston Parish, but does not attend Lsu.

According to prison booking documents, on April 7, the student and her roommate found a device under her futon and determined that it was a VR-500 voice activated recorder.