A Danville resident and elementary school campus supervisor has been charged with possessing child pornography, authorities said Friday.
Police arrested the 33-year-old man earlier this month after serving a search warrant at the suspect’s home, according to a statement from the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors did not say in the release why authorities had first targeted the man for the search.
During the search, authorities said police found that the man had child pornography on his laptop computer inside the residence.
The man faces one felony count of possessing child pornography. He was not in custody Friday after posting an undisclosed bail amount.
The San Ramon Valley School District said the man was an employee at John Baldwin Elementary School and that he had been placed on leave, then subsequently resigned.
“The news of this former employee’s arrest was a jolt to our school community and unsettling for everyone,” district spokeswoman Iliana Israel Summers said. She added that the district “held communication to protect the fidelity of the law enforcement’s investigation, and we knew that during this time that he was not on campus and that the investigation did not show a connection to his work at the school.”
The arrest came after an investigation by the Silicon Valley Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and Danville police.
