Shreveport, LOUISIANA

Mar 20 - Jimmy Yates, 36, a vocational instructor at Rutherford House, was arrested on charges of indecent behavior with what he thought was a 15-year-old girl.

The sexually explicit conversation turned out to be with a member of the task force looking for internet predators.

Rutherford House helps troubled youth who are going through the juvenile court system.
He was suspended without pay.

May 4 - Yates has been booked on a charge of possession of child pornography. Caddo Parish sheriff's deputies said the local cyber crimes unit found sexual images of children on computer hard drives seized from Yates' residence as part of the earlier investigation.

Yates is scheduled for arraignment on the original charges next week.

CONVICTED April 2, 2008 - Yates was convicted for sending lewd messages to a teen girl online. [No information on the pornography charges.]