Avella, PENNSYLVANIA

When you send explicit photos of yourself to a 14-year-old child, you ought to expect an arrest warrant.

October 22, 2008 - Joe Johnson, 33, the coach of the boys' basketball team at Avella Junior-Senior High School and a substitute teacher in the Washington County district, was arrested after police said they caught in a statewide Internet sex sting operation.

Police in Barrett, Monroe County, have been investigating Mr. Johnson since August. Mr. Johnson, of Hickory, "had several online conversations which were sexually explicit in nature, one of which involved Johnson sending the purported 14-year-old child explicit photographs of himself," Barrett police said in a news release.

In addition to unlawful contact with a minor, he also was charged with corruption of minors and indecent exposure.

Superintendent Wayde Killmeyer said he was unaware the investigation until police notified him about 10 minutes prior to the arrest. He then escorted Mr. Johnson out of a classroom at the Avella Elementary Center, and the arrest took place out of the view of students.

Johnson no longer works for the school, Killmeyer said.