Miramar resident, middle school teacher arrested for child porn
A computer information technology employee at a Miami-Dade County middle school was arrested Dec. 17 after a South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigation uncovered multiple images of child pornography on Garcia’s laptop computer.
ICAC Detectives from Boynton Beach and Toronto contacted the South Florida ICAC Task Force, in November after discovering the images of child pornography were associated with Charlie Garcia’s computers and address in Broward County. Garcia used a file sharing program to obtain the images.
More than 50 images initially found during a computer forensic preview on Garcia’s computer depicted children, 17 of them infants, involved in sexual acts with adults. The Broward Sheriff’s Office, along with Miramar PD detectives, served a search warrant and arrested Garcia at his Miramar home on Dec. 17. Detectives are conducting a thorough forensic investigation on multiple computers Garcia used at home and work.
Because Garcia, who has worked at Paul W. Bell Middle School for 11 years, had access to the school and its students, detectives are asking the public to report any inappropriate activity with children by Garcia. So far, they are aware of no such behavior. The day he was arrested, he told detectives he planned to play Santa Claus at the middle school.
Anyone with information about Garcia is asked to contact ICAC Detective Joe Vella at or anonymously report information to Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS or online at www.browardcrimestoppers.org.
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Posted by Andrea Freygang on Dec 27 2010. Filed under Broward County, Crime, Latest news, Local news, Miramar. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry
It’s great to see when people like this are taken off the streets; however what’s scary is thinking about how many other similar people who are still out there getting away with these sorts of crimes. People who work with children in schools need to be placed through major scrutiny before they are initially hired and school districts should be held responsible for rehiring someone who has previously committed a violation against a minor who then goes on to commit another crime. Unfortunately the real problem is that a lot of these criminals know how to mask the signs and symptoms of this sort of behavior until it’s too late.