Michael David Smith, Santa Maria, California (arrested Jan 2015) [child porn]

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    Michael David Smith (220xx I Street, Santa Margarita, California), 53, teacher & assistant boys' varsity basketball coach at Santa Maria High School, Santa Maria Joint Union High School District, Santa Maria, California, "one count of possession of child pornography and one count of distribution of child pornography"

    Teacher from Santa Margarita arrested for child pornography

    On Jan. 22, detectives with the Sheriff’s Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement (SAFE) team served a search warrant at that location. Detectives seized computers, laptops, external hard drives, memory cards and DVDs.

    On one external hard drive alone, there were multiple images of pre-pubescent children engaged in sexual acts. At this time, there is no evidence the manufacturing of child pornography was being conducted at the residence. The images appear to have been downloaded from the internet and then distributed. The rest of the seized electronics will be forensically analyzed for child pornography.

    Detectives arrested 53-year-old Michael David Smith of Santa Margarita on one count of possession of child pornography and one count of distribution of child pornography. Smith is a teacher at Santa Maria High School and is also the assistant varsity coach of the high school boy’s basketball team.

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    Local teacher arrested after child porn found in home, police say

    A teacher at Santa Maria High School was arrested at his home in Santa Margarita on charges of possessing child pornography Thursday — the fourth local child porn-related arrest in the last month. Michael David Smith, 53, was arrested after members of the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Team served a search warrant at his residence in the 22000 block of I Street. In a news release Friday, the Sheriff’s Office said detectives received information on Jan. 14 that child pornography was being downloaded and distributed from the home. Detectives seized computers, external hard drives, memory cards and DVDs, and allegedly discovered images of pre-pubescent children committing sex acts.

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    Santa Maria High teacher arrested on child porn charges

    SLO Sheriff' spokesman Ton Cipolla said deputies received information that child pornography was being downloaded and distributed from a computer at a residence located in the 22000 block of I Street in Santa Margarita, a small community just east of Highway 101 on Highway 58 I Central SLO County. On Detectives with the Sheriff's Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement (SAFE) team served a search warrant at that location on Thursday and computers, laptops, external hard drives, memory cards and DVDs.On one external hard drive alone, Cipolla said, there were multiple images of pre-pubescent children engaged in sexual acts ... Detectives arrested 53-year-old Michael David Smith of Santa Margarita on one count of possession of child pornography and one count of distribution of child

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    Santa Maria High teacher, assistant coach arrested for child porn

    San Luis Obispo County sheriff's detectives arrested Michael David Smith, 53, Thursday at his home in Santa Margarita after they received a report that he had been collecting the pornography on his home computer ... Detectives seized computers, laptops, external hard drives, memory cards and DVDs at Smith's rural San Luis Obispo County home. They found several images of prepubescent children engaged in sexual acts on one of the hard drives, according to the Sheriff's Department.

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    Santa Maria High School Teacher Arrested For Child Porn

    San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's detectives arrested 53-year-old Michael David Smith, of Santa Margarita, Thursday evening on possession and distribution of child pornography charges. The SLO Sheriff's office received information that child pornography was being downloaded in the 22000 block of I Street in Santa Margarita. Detectives together with the Sheriff's Assault Felony Enforcement team served a search warrant at the location. Investigators seized computers, laptops, external hard drives, memory cards, and DVDs. On one external hard drive, police discovered images of pre-pubescent children engaged in sexual acts.

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    Santa Maria High School teacher arrested in child porn possession case

    Detectives with the Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Team arrested 53-year-old Michael David Smith of Santa Margarita after receiving a tip on Jan. 14 that child porn was being downloaded and distributed from a computer at a residence in Santa Margarita. The detectives served a warrant at the 
residence on Jan. 22 and seized computers, laptops, external hard drives, memory cards, and DVDs. According the Sheriff’s Office, detectives reported finding multiple images of pre-pubescent children engaged in sexual acts on one of the hard drives. The alleged images appear to have been downloaded from the Internet and distributed, according to the press release, and the remainder of the seized electronics will be checked for child pornography.

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    Santa Maria high teacher charged in child porn case

    Detectives reportedly found hundreds of digital images of minors engaging in sexual sadism and masochism on a Santa Maria High School English teacher's computer after he was arrested last month on suspicion of distributing child pornography from his home. Michael David Smith, 53, was arrested at his Santa Margarita home Jan. 22 after the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department received a report he had been collecting child pornography on his personal computer. He was arraigned Thursday afternoon on felony charges of possessing and distributing child porn but didn't enter a plea during the hearing, which was postponed until April 2, according to the District Attorney's Office.

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