Friday, March 30, 2007

Malcomb, ILLINOIS

Mar 30, 2007 - John Reinhart, 23, a substitute teacher on the Hancock-McDonough Regional Office of Education' call list was arrested and charged with stockpiling hundreds of child pornography videos on his home computer.

Police said Reinhart was a tenant of an apartment building with linked computers. A fellow tenant searching an Apple iTunes server on the computers in the building told police that they observed child pornography in Reinhart's folders on the server.

Police searched Reinhart's computer and found hundreds of videos downloaded on his computer depicting what is believed to be children under the age of 14 engaged in sexual activities. During the police investigation, it was learned that Reinhart used a peer-to-peer downloading service on the Internet, to find and download the illicit video files. They also found drug paraphernalia and less than 2.5 grams of marijuana in the apartment.

Reinhart worked in Macomb's elementary schools through the regional office's call list.
Full Name: John S. Reinhart