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City-employed lifeguard suspected of secretly recording girls and women at Burbank pool

Swimmers cool off at Verdugo Park Pool in Burbank in this file photo from Aug., 24, 2013.
(Cheryl A. Guerrero / Los Angeles Times)
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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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