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nvm, I shouldn't

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Law enforcement officers investigating a San Antonio man suspected of child pornography activity said they caught him with his pants down, literally.

Court records said an FBI-led task force raided the Northeast Side apartment of Carlos Sanchez on Friday, surprising the 51-year-old man as he watched child porn and touched himself.

He was arrested on a charge of distributing child pornography, punishable by five to 20 years in federal prison.

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“Also during this interview Mr. Sanchez informed the interviewers that he has 'full blown AIDS' and is intentionally having unprotected sex with random males that he meets in the local parks,” the affidavit said. “Mr. Sanchez further stated that he not only peruses the local parks for male sexual partners but also purchases cocaine and marijuana while there.”

The affidavit said Sanchez also told agents that the night before the raid, he had gone to McAllister Park to buy cocaine, but could not find someone to have sex with.

He then went to Olmos Park, where he picked up a man and took him to his apartment for sex, the affidavit said.

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Manuel Isquierdo, the lone finalist for superintendent at the San Antonio Independent School District, owes the IRS more than $150,000 in federal taxes and fees, and was cited for at least nine traffic and parking infractions since 2007 that included driving with a suspended license, public records show.

While praised by supporters for his efforts to improve the Sunnyside Unified School District in Tucson, Ariz., Isquierdo also is named with his wife in two tax liens the IRS filed in Arizona in 2011 and 2012. The liens say the couple owed $152,674 in taxes, interest and penalties.

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Authorities in Arizona ticketed Isquierdo for traffic infractions that include speeding, failing to stop for a red light and driving with a suspended license. The license was suspended for failure to appear in court or to pay past fines.

It was unclear how long Isquierdo's license was suspended but Garza said it was reinstated. A municipal court record shows the ticket was dismissed.

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An Arizona grand jury investigated the financial dealings of Manuel Isquierdo, finalist for superintendent at the San Antonio Independent School District, and subpoenaed records in 2010 related to his highly touted educational program that offers free laptops to students.

The Pima County attorney's office in Tucson, Ariz., didn't respond to questions Wednesday about the inquiry or its resolution.

There's no record of Isquierdo facing criminal charges in Pima County, where he lives. He did not return phone messages.

Raul Aguirre, owner of REA Communications, a Tucson firm that had helped market the laptop program to other school districts with Isquierdo, said he believes the inquiry was prompted by a controversy over Isquierdo's use of a school-district credit card to charge $12,500 in unallowable expenses.

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Isquierdo, 62, has served as superintendent of the 18,000-student Sunnyside Unified School District in Tucson since 2007, where he has been credited with boosting graduation rates through the laptop incentive program.

It offers free laptop computers to students with good attendance, decent grades and active involvement.

Isquierdo has been involved in marketing and selling the program, called “Project Graduation.” The Pima County grand jury subpoenaed records on Feb. 17, 2010, at the Coachella Valley Unified School District in Thermal, Calif., which had signed up for the program.

The grand jury subpoena and other records were uncovered by private investigator Edward Saucerman, who was hired by the Coachella school board in February 2011 to investigate complaints about the Project Graduation deal and other concerns about Coachella's superintendent at the time, Ricardo Medina, and his staff.

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The Desert Sun, a newspaper in Palm Springs, obtained a copy of Saucerman's investigation last year after a lengthy open-records battle.

The newspaper published the report, the subpoena and other documents online, which the San Antonio Express-News discovered in a Google search.

The records show Isquierdo helped sell Project Graduation as a consultant for REA Communications, Aguirre's firm in Tucson.

It cost Coachella $170,000, paid in monthly installments, to join the program and buy the computers. Isquierdo offered to help the district raise donations of $100,000 to offset the cost.

Those donations didn't materialize, Saucerman found. A Coachella employee told Medina that no one was helping the cash-strapped school district raise the promised funds, and the employee said she no longer would approve payments to REA Communications.

Medina began signing the invoices himself — even after receiving the subpoena from the Pima County grand jury in February 2010.

A copy of the subpoena was attached to Saucerman's report. It requested documents regarding payments, contracts, meetings and presentations involving Isquierdo, his wife, REA Communications, Sunnyside Unified School District, Project Graduation and any employees of REA or Sunnyside.

Medina didn't tell the Coachella school board about the subpoena. Saucerman noted that Isquierdo and REA landed the contract at Coachella during a period when Isquierdo and his wife were dealing with tax problems.

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Manuel Isquierdo withdrew his candidacy for San Antonio Independent School District superintendent Friday after a daily drumbeat of news about his legal and financial issues.
Days after his name was made public, Isquierdo, the lone finalist for the position, was out of the running. Three SAISD trustees already had signaled waning support.
“He felt like there was too much to overcome,” school board President Ed Garza said of public perception.
Isquierdo, 62, didn't return repeated calls seeking comment.
The school board voted 7-0 on Monday to name him as its lone finalist.

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Isquierdo, who told reporters Thursday that he has learned from past financial mistakes, is facing a foreclosure in Arizona on a house he and his wife bought in April 2011 for $1.15 million with only $5,000 cash down, according to public notices in Arizona and records on file with LexisNexis, a commercial research service.
“If you had taken a $400,000 loss on a home, would it be fair to say you have 'learned from your mistake' when you move into a $1.15 million golf community home with nearly no money down?” asked a San Antonio financial blogger at the website Bankers Anonymous, who dug up information about the foreclosure and wrote about it Friday.

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“I think the board has worked hard,” Perez said Friday. “This was not the result that anyone expected over a year later.”
Several board members have blamed Isquierdo's imploding candidacy on PROACT, the Illinois-based search firm that recruited Isquierdo. The company did not return calls seeking comment. Trustees will discuss the district's contract with the firm Monday.
“The next thing we need to discuss is that we are going to fire PROACT,” trustee Adela Segovia said. “I frankly think that they need to go.”

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