Springdale, ARKANSAS

March 26, 2008 - Richard Smith, 55, an elementary teacher at Salem Lutheran School, was arrested Wednesday in connection with felony distributing, possessing, or viewing child pornography.

Smith teaches fourth and fifth grade at the school. Police were alerted by a tipster who told police Smith had images of child pornography on his home computer.

Smith voluntarily came to the Springdale Police Department for questioning and confessed to having images of children, toddlers to preteens, engaged in sexual activity, according to police. He admitted to downloading the images from various Web sites on the Internet over the past six years, police said.

Full Name: Richard Lester Smith

Smith was fired Wednesday. [TT - See how easy that is when it's not a public school?]

Washington County Detention Center inmate information.

INDICTED May 30 - A federal grand jury indicted Smith with six counts of knowing receipt of child pornography transported in interstate and foreign commerce and one count of knowing possession of a computer containing images of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct shipped in interstate and foreign commerce. A jury trial is scheduled for July 22.