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July
TEACHER IN CHILD SEX STING SENTENCED
Denver Rocky Mountain News/Jose Garner
Michael Charles Smith, 50, a longtime high school teacher who was arrested by federalauthorities on suspicion that he belongs to a ring of pedophiles that smuggles young boys fromMexico into the United States for sex and child pornography pleaded guilty May 5 to four federalfelonies. He pled guilty to three counts of harboring an illegal alien and one child-pornographycharge, which involved 16 pictures of boys transmitted over computers. An original charge ofsmuggling a Mexican boy into the United States for sex was dismissed as part of