City-employed lifeguard suspected of secretly recording girls and women at Burbank pool
A city-employed lifeguard was arrested Wednesday after reportedly videotaping and photographing minor girls and women in a public restroom and an employee locker room at the Verdugo Park Pool, police said.
Shortly after 9 a.m., police responded to the pool, where they found images and videos on 23-year-old Arturo Montano’s phone, according to Burbank Police Sgt. Claudio Losacco.
Montano’s coworker had reportedly seen the camera in a locker room and told a manager.
Investigators subsequently served a search warrant at Montano’s home in Sun Valley and seized his computer.
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Several juvenile and adult victims have been identified, though their ages were not available.
Montano was arrested on suspicion of possessing images of a minor for the purpose of sexual stimulation and concealing a camera to videotape the less-than-fully-clothed bodies of others without their knowledge for the purpose of sexual gratification, Losacco said.
Montano is being held in lieu of $170,000 bail and is due in court later this week.
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Alene Tchekmedyian, alene.tchekmedyian@latimes.com
Twitter: @atchek
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