Guilty! Marco Alferez, El Paso, Texas (arrested Sept 2010) [child porn]

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    (an old case that's back in the news)​
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    Marco Alferez, 34, drama teacher at Irvin High School, El Paso, El Paso ISD, El Paso, Texas, child porn downloading & production

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    Immigration & Customs Enforcement: ICE arrests El Paso high school dance teacher on child pornography charges (Sept 22 2010)

    A local high school dance teacher was arraigned Wednesday on child pornography charges following his arrest by special agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Marco Alferez, 34, an Irvin High School teacher, was arrested at his west El Paso home on Sept. 21 after ICE HSI special agents assigned to the cyber crimes group and other law enforcement partners executed a federal search warrant at his home in the 200 block of Pyrite Drive. FBI special agents, El Paso County Sheriff's Office deputies, and El Paso Independent School District police officers assisted with the case. ICE HSI agents seized two computers and various electronic media from Alferez' home. A forensic examination of the seized computers revealed sexually explicit images of child pornography. ICE HSI began investigating Alferez last month as part of an ongoing child pornography investigation.

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    Alferez is charged with possessing child pornography. He faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. He remains in federal custody. His detention hearing is set for Monday.

    This investigation was part of Operation Predator, an ICE initiative to protect children from sexual predators, including those who travel overseas for sex with minors, Internet child pornographers, criminal alien sex offenders, and child sex traffickers. Since ICE launched Operation Predator in 2003, more than 12,800 child sex predators, sex tourists and child pornographers have been arrested.

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    Marco Alferez, El Paso, Texas, Irvin High School, El Paso ISD, LeBarron Park Elementary School, Ysleta Independent School District, Austin High School, Camino Real Middle School, Scotsdale Elementary
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    KVIA: Irvin High Teacher Arrested On Child Pornography Charge (Sept 22 2010)

    Marco Alferez, 34, an Irvin High School teacher, was arrested at his west El Paso home Tuesday after ICE HSI special agents with the cyber crimes group and other law enforcement partners executed a federal search warrant at his home in the 200 block of Pyrite Drive ... Alferez is charged with possessing child pornography. He remains in federal custody.
     
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    KFOX TV: Irvin High School Teacher Accused Of Child Pornography (Sept 22 2010)

    Marco Alferez, 34, was arrested by agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Office of Homeland Security Investigations at his home in the 200 block of Pyrite Drive Tuesday, ICE officials said ... Alferez was put on administrative leave, said spokeswoman Berenice Zubia for El Paso Independent School District.
     
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    KFOX TV: High School Teacher Faces Child Porn Charges (Sept 22 2010)

    KFOX that Alferez started at Irvin High School in August 2008 as a dance teacher and coach. On Wednesday, he was in the El Paso County Jail ... Neighbors of Alferez in his West El Paso neighborhood said they woke up to a commotion Tuesday morning, as federal law enforcement agents raided Alferez's home, taking two computers that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said contained sexually explicit images of child pornography. Neighbors said they were shocked but didn't want to go on camera.
     
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    El Paso Times: Irvin High School dance teacher accused of possessing child porn (Sept 22 2010)



    Federal law enforcement agents arrested an El Paso Independent School District teacher and accused him of possessing child pornography. Marco Alferez, 34, a high school dance teacher, was arrested by agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office ... Berenice Zubia, an EPISD spokeswoman, said Alferez ... has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
     
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    El Paso Times: Irvin HS teacher jailed after child porn is found (Sept 23 2010)

    A high-school dance teacher and head choreographer with "Viva! El Paso" has been arrested on suspicion of having child pornography in his home, a spokeswoman with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Wednesday. Agents arrested Marco Alferez, 34, a teacher at Irvin High School, on Tuesday at his home in West El Paso. ICE spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa said agents had been investigating Alferez for about a month. Alferez is also listed as the principal choreographer for "Viva! El Paso" and has been with the show for 17 years. He's also been involved in several productions at the University of Texas at El Paso's Dinner Theater.
     
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    El Paso Times: Feds say Irvin teacher had child porn for years (Sept 24 2010)

    Agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Marco Alferez, 34, on Tuesday ... According to the affidavit, agents were able to trace the porn to Alferez through Alferez's computer IP address and Time Warner Cable records. ICE spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa said Wednesday that agents, who had been investigating Alferez for a month before his arrest, seized two computers and "various electronic media" from he West Side home. The affidavit states agents also seized DVDs and several VHS tapes. When agents examined the seized items, they found two videos featuring prepubescent girls in sexually explicit poses. Another video showed a prepubescent girl struggling while being molested by an adult, agents stated in the affidavit.
     
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    KVIA: Update: Teacher Arrested For Child Pornography Says He Knew About It (Sept 25 2010)

    The Irvin High School dance teacher arrested on charges of receiving and sharing child pornography told investigators he knew he had the illegal material. The criminal complaint obtained by ABC-7 investigators said Marco Alferez told authorities he "had been involved in the receipt and possession of child pornography for several years." The court document also stated Alferez used Limewire, a popular peer-to-peer file sharing program to obtain the child pornography. The document stated that three different files of child pornography were found. The videos discovered on Alferez's computer featured young pre-pubescent females engaged in sexual acts, according to the complaint.
     
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    KVIA: Parents Of Students Show Support For Teacher Charged With Possessing Child Porn (Sept 29 2010)

    A local high school dance teacher [Marco Alferez] accused of possessing child pornography, including a video of a young girl being molested by a grown man, has parents of some of his students supporting him ... According to a criminal complaint, federal agents found 3 video files on Alferez's home computer, all of them included prepubescent girl engaging in sexual acts. The same document states Alferez admitted to authorities he downloaded the porn and had it for several years. At a court hearing on Monday, parents of some of the students who Alferez taught dance to told ABC-7 they support the accused teacher.
     
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    KFOX TV: Irvin High School Dance Teacher May Have Victimized 70 (Sept 29 2010)

    New allegations were raised Wednesday at a bond hearing for an Irvin High School dance teacher who was accused of possession of child pornography last week. Federal prosecutors allege that Marco Alferez had sex with a minor in his home and video taped it. During the bond hearing at the Federal Court House, KFOX learned authorities said they found 98 online videos and 12 VHS tapes of homemade child pornography in Marco Alferez's possession. Federal prosecutors said they believe 65 to 70 young children, some from the El Paso area, were shown in the videos.
     
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    Fox News: Texas Teacher Accused of Taping Sex With as Many as 70 Children (Sept 30 2010)

    An El Paso, Texas, high school dance teacher was jailed without bond Thursday on charges of sexual exploitation of minors and possessing child pornography, allegedly including 200 videotapes of himself having sex with as many as 70 children, some of whom were elementary school age. Federal agents testified that they found the videos in the home of 34-year-old Marco Alferez. The agents said the videos showed Alferez having sex with children as young as elementary school age, the El Paso Times reported. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Gilbert Campa testified he found 12 VHS tapes, each about four to six hours long, and 107 8-mm tapes of Alferez having sex with children. Campa said ICE agents have been able to identify 65 to 70 victims in the homemade videos, and it appeared that Alferez tried hide the camera during the sexual acts.
     
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    KTSM: Prosecutors: Irvin High Teacher Depicted in Homemade Movies (Sept 30 2010)

    Police say they found child porn on Alferez' home computer and tonight, as we have dug into his background, more disturbing evidence has come to light. Prosecutors say that Alferez tried to hide a camera with a T-shirt and then taped himself having sex with children. They think the youngest victim may be in elementary school. I was kind of worried about her," said Irene Calderon. Her daughter had Alferez as a dance teacher last year. She said she was always wary of leaving her alone with him. "I came to three rehearsals and I saw how he was treating the girls and everything, but I never left my daughter by herself or anything," she said. We're told prosecutors found 140 homemade videos on his computer with as many as seventy victims. They're not sure if the victims are from El Paso, but they do know Alferez was uploading the videos to the internet and sharing them.
     
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    KVIA: Irvin High Teacher Arrested On Child Porn Charge Has Worked In Other Schools, Did Volunteer Work With Youths (Sept 30 2010)

    The investigation into Marco Alferez led investigators to the Irvin High School campus on Thursday. That's where investigators from at least two different law enforcement agencies spent part of the day interviewing some of Alferez's students ... The student said one of the questions they were asked was whether or not Alferez was around while his female students were changing.
     
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    KVIA: Prosecutor: Irvin High Dance Teacher Made Child Porn In His Home, May Have Up To 70 Victims (Sept 30 2010)

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents now say Marco Alferez, 34, was making child pornography in his own home and claim there may be as many as 70 local victims ... ICE agents said Alferez admitted to the accusations. The agent who interviewed Alferes the day his home was searched testified that Alferez told them he was "relieved to have been caught," telling the agents he himself had been sexually assaulted as a child.
     
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    Examiner: Dance teacher Marco Alferez accused of taping himself having sex with children (Sept 30 2010)

    Marco Alferez, a high school dance teacher in El Paso, Texas is accused of filming himself in sexual encounters with dozens of children -- some of them as young as elementary school age. Authorities say they’ve found over 200 videos of the Irvin High School teacher having sex with children ... The El Paso Times reports that during Alferez’s bond hearing on Wednesday, ICE Agent Gilbert Campa testified that Alferez confessed to producing the videos and also noted that as many as 70 children may have been victimized. Campa said Alferez told him "...he couldn't stop doing what he was doing."
     
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    CBS News: Dance Teacher Child Porn Suspect: Marco Alferez Accused of Sex with Dozens of Kids, Taping It (Sept 30 2010)

    A high school dance teacher is accused of videotaping himself having sex with scores of children, including some who were elementary school age. Marco Alferez is charged with sexual exploitation of minors and possessing child pornography. Federal authorities say they found more than 200 videos of the 34-year-old Irwin High School teacher having sex with children. Alferez was arrested Sept. 21 at his El Paso home after authorities linked his internet protocol address to the sharing of three videos allegedly containing child pornography, reports CBS affiliate KDBC ... During Alferez's bond hearing Wednesday, ICE agent Gilbert Campa testified he found 12 VHS tapes, each approximately four to six hours long, and 107 8-mm tapes of Alferez having sex with children, reports the El Paso Times. Campa also claimed Alferez confessed to making the videos of himself with children ... according to the paper. According to the case's criminal compliant, Alferez told investigators he's been downloading child porn for several years using the file sharing software Limewire.
     
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    El Paso Times: Feds: Irvin teacher may have 70 victims (Sept 30 2010)

    Almost 70 children in El Paso might have been videotaped having sex with an Irvin High School dance teacher, federal agents said in federal court Wednesday. The startling revelation was made at a detention hearing for Marco Alferez, 34, who has been charged with sexual exploitation of minors and having child pornography. Two federal agents testified they found more than 200 videos of Alferez having sex with children, some elementary school age. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Gilbert Campa testified he found 12 VHS tapes, each about four to six hours long, and 107 8-mm tapes of Alferez having sex with children. Campa said ICE agents have been able to identify 65 to 70 victims in the homemade videos. Campa said it appeared that Alferez had attempted to hide the video camera to film the sex acts.
     
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    Las Vegas Badger: Perverted El Paso Teacher Who Is Still Getting Paid While In Jail (Sept 30 2010)

    And, so is the teacher fired? Umm, no: Alferez, who began teaching at Irvin High School in August 2008, has been placed on paid administrative leave, said Berenice Zubia, spokeswoman for the El Paso Independent School District. http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_16210162?source=most_viewed This POS is sitting in jail, with a no bail hold on the guy but yet he is still receiving his salary. Way, to go, El Paso School District and teacher's union.
     
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    LiveLeak: El Paso teacher accused of taping sex with kids (Sept 30 2010)

    An El Paso high school dance teacher is accused by federal agents of recording more than 200 videotapes of himself having sex with as many as 70 children, some of whom were elementary school age. Marco Alferez, 34, was jailed without bond Thursday ...