A 19-year-old man who police initially thought yanked a towel off a woman changing in a locker room at Firstenburg Community Center was sentenced Friday to 70 days in jail for unlawfully entering the center.
Although police referred a charge of voyeurism, Johnathan R. Hollis, was never charged with that crime. Instead, the Vancouver man pleaded guilty last month during arraignment to second-degree burglary in connection with the April 22 incident at the center, 700 N.E. 136th Ave.
According to an affidavit of probable cause, surveillance cameras captured a man, later identified as Hollis, repeatedly entering the women’s locker room at the center within a 40-minute span. The center’s director viewed the footage and said the same man entered the facility without paying.
A woman who went into the locker room at about 3:30 p.m. said she noticed a man lurking near the doors. When she returned to the locker room about a half hour later, she said she was bent over with a towel draped around her waist and felt it be tugged away. She saw the same man running away with a cellphone in his hand, the affidavit states.
