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FBI's Most Wanted Fugitive Captured

Brianna Sacks |
April 22, 2013 | 7:35 p.m. PDT

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(FBI's Most Wanted; Wikimedia Commons)
(FBI's Most Wanted; Wikimedia Commons)
Police in Nicaragua arrested one of the FBI's ten most-wanted fugitives, child-porn suspect Eric Justin Toth, and handed him over to U.S. officials Monday afternoon, The Nicaragua Dispatch reported.

Toth, 31, is a former Washington, D.C. elementary-school teacher accused of possessing and producing child pornography after explicit photos of a student were discovered on his camera in 2008, according to the Washington Post.

The former third-grade teacher had been on the run for almost five years after he was fired from Beauvoir elementary school and replaced Osama bin Laden on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.

The head of detectives for Nicaragua's National Police Force says Toth was detained near the border of Nicaragua and Honduras. The Post reports that Toth was taken into custody Saturday night in Nicaragua, but still has not been extradited to the U.S. as of Monday.

Last year, the FBI upgraded Toth from a local most-wanted list to the national list of most wanted fugitives.

Toth has a history of producing child porngarphy and warrants have been issued for his arrest in D.C. and Maryland.

From the Washington Post:
 
  He is accused of taking sexually explicit photographs of a boy at the victim’s home in the summer of 2007, according to the FBI and court documents.

He also is accused of installing a video camera in his third-grade class’s bathroom and using it to record his students.

Toth had been spotted in Phoenix in 2009, but disappeared after someone saw him featured on the TV show "America's Most Wanted" and called the police. The FBI had offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.

Read the whole story at the Nicaragua Dispatch and The Washington Post

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