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Police in Nicaragua have captured a former US school teacher who was on the FBI's "10 most wanted" list as a suspect in a child pornography investigation.
Eric Toth was detained on Saturday in Esteli, near Nicaragua's border with Honduras.

National Police chief Aminta Granera said at a news conference in Managua, the capital, on Monday: "Toth will be deported immediately because he was in our country illegally."
She said Toth entered Nicaragua with a false passport and also had a fake driver's licence and credit cards. He would be handed over to FBI agents, who would take him back to the US.
Toth was presented to journalists at the news conference, but he wasn't allowed to talk and was quickly taken away.
Granera said Toth first entered Nicaragua on October 24 last year and left on January 27. He returned on February 12, when Nicaraguan police began keeping a close watch. "He was captured in a house in the Panama Soberana neighbourhood in Esteli, even though he resisted," Granera said.
Toth taught third grade at Beauvoir, a private elementary school in the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral.
He was escorted off campus in June 2008 after another teacher reported finding sexually explicit photographs on a school camera in Toth's possession. He had not been seen since he lost his job.
In a statement, the school commended the work of the US authorities. "They have been tenacious and resolute in their quest to bring this case to justice," the statement said.
Toth was added to the FBI's "most wanted" list in April last year for allegedly possessing and producing child pornography, giving him a notoriety normally reserved for violent criminals or terrorists.
Osama bin Laden and purported Boston mobster James "Whitey" Bulger have both been featured on that list.
But the FBI said it put Toth on the list because there were no reliable clues as to his whereabouts and because his internet skills and alleged grooming of children made him dangerous.
Authorities found Toth's car at the Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport in August 2008 with a note suggesting that he had committed suicide in a nearby lake. But no body was found.


'Child porn' teacher on FBI's most wanted list is seized in Nicaragua

Armed police stand guard as Eric Toth is presented to the media at the police headquarters in Managua, Nicaragua. Photo: Reuters

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Former US schoolmaster on FBI's 'most wanted' list will be deported after his arrest in Nicaragua


Police in Nicaragua have captured a former US school teacher who was on the FBI's "10 most wanted" list as a suspect in a child pornography investigation. Eric Toth was detained on Saturday in Esteli, near Nicaragua's border with Honduras.


'Child porn' teacher on FBI's most wanted list is seized in Nicaragua

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Former US schoolmaster on FBI's 'most wanted' list will be deported after his arrest in Nicaragua