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Eric Justin Toth, one of FBI’s ‘most wanted,’ captured in Nicaragua
Baku, April 23 (AZERTAC). Toth was wanted for allegedly possessing and producing child pornography. He was fired from his job as a Washington, D.C. elementary school teacher when the allegations were made in 2008 and disappeared soon after.
Eric Justin Toth, 31, was wanted since 2008 on child pornography charges. He was apprehended on Saturday in Nicaragua.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Police in Nicaragua have detained one of the FBI’s ten most-wanted fugitives, child-porn suspect Eric Justin Toth.
The head of detectives for Nicaragua’s National Police force says Toth was detained near the Honduran border.
Glenda Zavala said Monday that Toth had been detained Saturday, based on an international detention request.
The former Washington D.C. elementary school teacher faces accusations he possessed and produced child pornography.
He lost his teaching job in 2008 after another teacher found images of child pornography on a school camera in Toth’s possession. He then disappeared.
The FBI had offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the 31-year-old Toth.
From the Washington Post:
He is accused of taking sexually explicit photographs of a boy at the victim’s home in the summer of 2007, according to the FBI and court documents.
He also is accused of installing a video camera in his third-grade class’s bathroom and using it to record his students.
Toth had been spotted in Phoenix in 2009, but disappeared after someone saw him featured on the TV show "America's Most Wanted" and called the police.
The parents said it was common knowledge that Toth was entwined in the lives of Beauvoir students — particularly male students — and sometimes in unusual ways. He babysat and tutored them, at times for free. He slept at their houses as a babysitter when parents were away and was a guest at one boy’s home for weeks.
Toth was born in Fairfax County and grew up in Indiana, according to the FBI. He studied at Cornell University before earning his undergraduate degree in education from Purdue University.
Toth has worked as a nanny, teaching assistant and youth counselor.
The FBI has tracked some of his movements since the June 2008 day school officials found his camera with explicit photos. That afternoon, he withdrew cash in Arlington County and arrived the next day at his family’s home in Hammond, Ind., where he stayed for a day or two.
The next day, he bought a cellphone and Global Positioning System device from a Circuit City store in Madison, Wis, authorities said. A day later, he drove a Honda sedan to a long-term parking lot at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Inside the car, he left a bogus suicide note indicating that police could find his body in a nearby lake.