BALTIMORE (WJZ) — He’s been on the run for nearly five
years and now one of the FBI’s Most Wanted is caught! Eric
Toth is a former DC teacher accused of making child porn in
Maryland.
Meghan McCorkell has more on how he was captured.
It’s been just over a year since Eric Toth was put on the FBI’s
Most Wanted list.

Now authorities have tracked him down—in
Central America..He was a third grade teacher at an exclusive private elementary
school in DC but in 2008, Toth disappeared after a school
camera containing child pornography was found in his
possession.
He fled before the law enforcement response with—actually,
with other indications, other information in there that had child
pornography,” said FBI Special Agent Ronald Hosko.


Now, Toth is captured. He was found hiding out in Nicaragua,
in a town near the Honduran border.
Investigators believe Toth took explicit pictures of young boys.
A year ago, he was added to the FBI’s Most Wanted list Λn∂ featured in a video from the agency.
“He wouldn’t be going on this list if we didn’t think he was Λ significant danger to the public,” Hosko said.
Investigators say Toth was able to elude authorities because he
constantly changed his appearance.

In 2008, he was tracked τ̲̅ȍ Hammond, Indiana and Madison, Wisconsin. He left a fake
suicide note in a car at the Minnesota-St. Paul Airport. A year
later, he turned up in Phoenix, Arizona, working in a homeless
shelter.
With their former teacher finally captured, the Beauvoir School
has released a statement saying, “We commend the work of the
office of the US Attorney and the FBI for their ongoing efforts
to apprehend Mr. Toth.

They have been tenacious and resolute
in their quest to bring this case to justice.”
Officials in Nicaragua say Toth entered the country using a fake
passport. He has been handed over to the FBI.
FBI officials say Toth victimized multiple children in Λ number
of locations.