A Fort Lauderdale city employee has been placed on administrative leave after being arrested Friday for allegedly looking at child pornography in his car in a McDonald’s parking lot.
He faces four felony charges.
Investigators claim they were responding to a tip on Friday at around 2 a.m. when the man was apparently found viewing child porn on a computer in his car.
According to police, the man admitted to looking at child porn since December.
A spokesman for the city of Fort Lauderdale confirmed the man has worked as a city building inspector since 2006.
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