L.A. teacher jailed in child porn case
Police find thousands of images of children, many of them deemed pornographic, in the Glendale home of Ivan Carcelen, 56.
A special education teacher at Griffith Middle School in Los Angeles has been arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography, an FBI spokeswoman said today.
Ivan Carcelen, 56, was taken into custody Tuesday evening at his Glendale home by agents and officers with the FBI's Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Team.
FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said Carcelen was arrested without incident and that agents recovered thousands of images of children, many of them classified as child pornography.
Eimiller said that it did not appear that any of the children depicted in the images were students at the school, nor had they recovered any evidence that he had molested children.
"Because of the nature of the crime, it's something we always consider," Eimiller said. "We are continuing to investigate."
The investigation that snared Carcelen was initiated months ago by FBI agents in San Francicso. Carcelen was identified as a subscriber to a child pornography website, Eimiller said.
Carcelen has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, she said.
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