Alex Eye Bursch (50xx Wagon Wheel Way, Antioch, California), 26, teacher at Los Medanos Elementary School [Pittsburgh Unified School District], Pittsburgh, California, "possession of child pornography" Claycord News & Talk: 26-year-old Pleasant Hill swim coach & elementary teacher arrested for child porn (Sept 1 2010) Mostly a press release from the Costa County Sheriff's office: Detectives from the Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff Sexual Assault Unit this morning arrested 26-year-old Alex Bursch of Antioch for possession of child pornography.The Detectives launched an investigation following a tip. This morning at about 8AM, a search warrant was served at Bursch’s residence on the 5000 block of Wagon Wheel Way in Antioch. There, several computers and storage devices containing thousands of images of child pornography were confiscated.Bursch is a teacher at the Los Medanos Elementary School in Pittsburg. He was arrested this morning at the school without incident. Bursch is also a coach and lifeguard for a local swim team, the Pleasant Hill Dolfins.Bursch has been booked into the Martinez Detention Facility on three charges of possession of child pornography. His bail is set at $60,000. Same PR also found at San Francisco Chronicle (via PrivateOfficerNews.com): Contra Costa teacher arrested for child porn (Sept 3 2012) Tags:
Press release from U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of California: Former East Bay Elementary School Teacher And Youth Swim Coach Sentenced For Possession Of Child Pornography FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENovember 30, 2012 OAKLAND, Calif. – Alex Eye Bursch was sentenced Wednesday to 57 months in prison, and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine, for possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced. After a one-day bench trial, Bursch was convicted by a judge on Aug. 29, 2012, for possessing child pornography. During the trial, evidence showed that Bursch used peer-to-peer file-sharing software to share child pornography images via the Internet. Martinez police officers and Contra Costa sheriff’s deputies obtained a search warrant for Bursch’s home, where they found computers containing more child pornography images and videos. Bursch admitted to police that he used file-sharing software to download and collect child pornography. At the time of his arrest, Bursch taught elementary school at the Pittsburg, Calif., School District, and was a youth swim coach. In imposing its sentence, the Court noted the large number of child pornography images in Bursch’s collection, and that his child pornography included images of prepubescent children and of children involved in sadistic sex acts. The sentence was handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton following a bench trial on one count of possession of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B). Judge Hamilton also sentenced the defendant to a seven-year period of supervised release and imposed a $2,000 fine. The defendant is scheduled to begin serving the sentence on Jan. 28, 2013. Owen Martikan is the Assistant U.S. Attorney who prosecuted the case with the assistance of Rosario Calderon. The prosecution is the result of a one-year investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Martinez Police Department, the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office, and the San Jose Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
Mercury News: Pittsburg: Former teacher and swim coach sentenced for possessing child porn (Nov 30 2012) A former Teacher of the Year at a Pittsburg elementary school convicted of possessing child pornography was sentenced Wednesday to almost five years in prison. U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton sentenced Alex Bursch to 57 months in prison and ordered him to pay a $2,000 fine, according to Melinda Haag, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California ... Bursch, 28, was named the Teacher of the Year at Los Medanos Elementary School in 2010, where he taught for five years. He also was a coach for the Pleasant Hill Dolfins swim team, and detectives found pictures of some of his swimmers, clad in their bathing suits, mixed in with the other images.
KGO AM 810: Former East Bay Elementary School Teacher Sentenced in Child Porn Case (Nov 30 2012) KGO's Tihanna McCleese reports that prosecutors had hoped [Alex] Bursch would receive the maximum of seven years and three months, but they were satisfied with the four years and nine months sentence that was handed down ... At trial, investigators testified about the thousands of pornographic images found on Bursch's home computer, some depicting children involved in sadistic sex acts.
KRON 4: Former Pittsburg Teacher Receives Prison Sentence for Child Pornography Conviction (Nov 30 2012) A former teacher [Alex Eye Busch] at a Pittsburg elementary school will be going to prison after being sentenced in federal court in Oakland to four years and nine months in prison for possession of child pornography ... They said the investigation began when an undercover officer discovered that a computer using Bursch's Internet connection was sharing child pornography images through the use of peer-to-peer file-sharing software.
CBS Local San Francisco: Former East Bay School Teacher, Swim Coach Sentenced For Child Porn (Nov 30 2012) A former teacher at a Pittsburg elementary school has been sentenced in federal court in Oakland to four years and nine months in prison for possession of child pornography ... He was convicted on Aug. 29 by Hamilton in a one-day nonjury trial of one count of possessing child pornography on Sept. 1, 2010. That date was the day that Contra Costa County sheriff’s detectives arrested Bursch after discovering pornography images on his computers in a search of his home.
ABC Local KGO: Former teacher sentenced for child porn (Nov 30 2012) U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag said that in imposing the four-year, nine-month sentence, Hamilton noted that Bursch's collection contained a large number of images and that some of the images were of prepubescent children and of sadistic sex acts involving children. Hamilton denied Bursch's request to be allowed to remain free during an appeal and ordered him to surrender to begin serving his sentence on Jan. 28.
San Francisco Weekly: Alex Eye Bursch, East Bay Swim Coach, Headed to Prison for Sharing Child Pornography (Nov 30 2012) Alex Eye Bursch was arrested in 2010 at Los Medanos Elementary School where he was a teacher after a tip led authorities to his stash of child porn images. He was convicted on Aug. 29 after a one-day trial, where prosecutors showed evidence that proved Bursch used peer-to-peer file-sharing software to share child pornography images of prepubescent children, some involved in sadistic sex acts, according to federal prosecutors ... In imposing its sentence, the Court noted the large number of child pornography images in Bursch's collection, and that his child pornography included images of prepubescent children and of children involved in sadistic sex acts.
Examiner: Teacher caught with child pornography (Dec 1 2012) A former teacher in the Contra Costa County community of Pittsburg was convicted of possessing child pornography, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Friday in an emailed news release. Alex Eye Bursch was sentenced to 57 months in prison and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine. In addition to being a school teacher, Bursch was a swim coach.
