Sex Offender Caught Outside City Pool With Binoculars

Salisbury, NC-- A registered sex offender is in trouble for being outside a city pool.

Salisbury Police told WBTV, Perry Quintin Simmons who is a registered sex offender was busted outside of a city pool, watching the people inside with binoculars.

According to the Salisbury Police Department, officers were called to the Lincoln Park Pool along Old Concord Road on Monday afternoon around 4 p.m.

When they arrived, lifeguards at the pool told officers they noticed a man sitting on a bench in the park area outside the fenced in pool, watching people at the pool with binoculars

Officers found the man, later identified as 48-year-old Perry Quintin Simmons, sitting on a park bench about 75 feet from the pool area...with binoculars in his possession.

Police say Simmons is a registered sex offender.

Simmons was arrested and charged with Obstruction of Justice-Common Law and Violation of his Requirements as a Registered Sex Offender. He was placed in the Rowan County Detention Center under a $5,000 bond.

Investigators commended the lifeguards working at the pool for being aware of the surroundings and notifying police.

WBTV