A life­guard’s air ri­fle was stolen af­ter his ve­hi­cle’s win­dow was smashed at the Ves­signy Beach fa­cil­i­ty in La Brea.

The 58-year-old vic­tim, who is em­ployed at the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, se­cured his Toy­ota Wag­on around 6.30 am on Wednes­day in the park­ing lot of the beach fa­cil­i­ty and went away.

When he re­turned around 2.15 pm, a se­cu­ri­ty guard in­formed him that two sus­pects had bro­ken in­to his car.

The glass on the right rear door was smashed and a Sina­tra .177 smooth­bore air ri­fle was miss­ing.

When the po­lice viewed the CCTV footage, they saw on­ly one man with a white jer­sey over his face, break­ing the glass, steal­ing the air ri­fle and es­cap­ing in­to the near­by bush­es.

The air ri­fle was val­ued at $19,000, while the glass cost $900. 

La Brea po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing. (SW)