CARUTHERS ELEM TEACHER, NORTHPOINTE CHURCH WORKER, ARRESTED ON CHILD PORN CHARGES

CALIFORNIA
ABC 30

By Corin Hoggard
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — A child pornography investigation led from Switzerland to Fresno and ended with a Caruthers Elementary School teacher being arrested Wednesday. Gregory Michael Carr, 46, bailed out of jail a few hours after Fresno County sheriff’s deputies arrested him.

Police in Switzerland were the first to notice someone in Fresno downloading explicit pictures of children. Investigators here in Fresno traced the download to Carr’s computer and Wednesday, they arrested him.

Greg Carr has been closely involved with children for decades, mostly as a teacher at Caruthers Elementary for the last 20 years. But this month, sheriff’s detectives say a darker involvement with kids was exposed by Swiss police.

“Homeland Security got a tip that Carr may have some child pornography on his computers,” said Fresno County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Tony Botti. “They notified our local agents.”

In early August, investigators tracked illegal images to Carr’s Northwest Fresno home. And when they went there in person, the seventh and eighth grade teacher let detectives examine two laptops and a tablet. A search warrant Action News uncovered shows that as they sat there, a detective found a series of images of a nude underage girl. They didn’t arrest him on the spot, but they seized several electronic devices from the home and they warned Carr’s employer. …

Carr also worked part-time as a student ministries technical director at Northpointe Church. Pastor Steve Williams issued a statement saying church leadership was stunned and that Carr no longer works there either.

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