Teacher Is Held After Girl Found in Home
A substitute teacher was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of contributing to the delinquency of a minor after he was found harboring a 13-year-old girl overnight at his Cypress home, police said.
Ricardo Arvizu, 32, who was booked at the Norwalk sheriff’s station, was scheduled to appear today in a Cerritos courtroom, where more charges could be added, said Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lt. Mike Connolly.
Deputies were led to Arvizu’s house, Connolly said, after the girl’s parents said she had been missing from the family’s Norwalk home since 8 p.m. Monday. The girl, whose identity is being withheld because she is a minor, and her mother had had an argument, Connolly said.
Early Tuesday, according to investigators, the girl’s father found a journal in her computer indicating that she had been corresponding with Arvizu, a substitute teacher at her school in the Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District.
Deputies found the girl unharmed at Arvizu’s house about 7:45 a.m., Connolly said.
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