Hoover teacher faces serious charges for allegedly possessing child sex abuse material

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Caught online, a Hoover High School teacher and boys' interim shot manager is present facing superior charges for allegedly possessing kid enactment maltreatment material.

38-year-old Miguel Lara of Fresno was arrested Thursday aft a weeks-long probe by the Central Valley's Internet Crimes Against Children task force, oregon ICAC-team .

"Once we began to enactment this lawsuit and nonstop warrants to antithetic societal media applications, net browsers, and things similar that, it took immoderate clip to get the accusation backmost but erstwhile we got everything back, we recovered retired helium was a teacher, that is erstwhile everything started rolling. We were capable to execute warrants and took him into custody," says ICAC Detective, Fernando Rosario.

The probe began successful June with a extremity from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Police arrested Lara astatine an flat analyzable successful Fresno.

His telephone and different physics devices were seized arsenic grounds during his arrest.

"Any presumption that you are going to person entree to children, particularly successful things similar this its gonna escalate the concern for us, due to the fact that determination is simply a imaginable determination could person been hands connected offense, not that determination is successful this case, and we person not received immoderate accusation that determination was, this was strictly societal media base," Detective Rosario explains.

In a statement, Fresno Unified School District said:

"Fresno Unified is alert of the caller apprehension of Miguel Lara, who was serving arsenic interim boys' shot manager astatine Hoover High School astatine the clip of the arrest. The allegations are profoundly troubling. Our apical precedence is the information and well-being of our students. We impulse families to speech to their children and study immoderate inappropriate activities oregon behaviors to a trusted big astatine school. Anyone with accusation is urged to interaction Detective Jovan Tamayo astatine (559) 761-3659."

Detectives are urging parents to person unfastened connection with their children.

And their connection to offenders is... "Sometimes it whitethorn beryllium hard to find them, they are ways they effort to get astir it and not get caught, but we person amended ways and we are going to find them," says Detective Rosario.

Lara has posted bail and is scheduled to look successful tribunal connected August 7.

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