Chesterfield Township Man Faces Child Porn Charges

A Chesterfield Township resident and former middle school teacher was charged with production, possession and receipt of child pornography on Monday.

Gregory Francis Austin, a 32-year-old resident of Chesterfield Township and a former teacher in the Fraser School District, was arrested and charged Monday, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced in a press release.

Austin, who had been employed by the Fraser School District as a band instructor since 2005 and became a classroom teacher in 2006 before leaving the district in March 2012, allegedly had images of 12 minors and students on his cell phone.

Law enforcement officials made the discovery after Austin was arrested on March 19, 2012, by the Roseville Police Department for his involvement in a drug deal in a school parking lot. Austin left the Fraser School District shortly afterward.

After the arrest, police found numerous images of suspected child pornography on Austin’s cell phone.

Police also discovered “inappropriate, non-pornographic images of suspected minors, text messages that were sexual in nature that appeared to involve minors, and two pornographic videos, one of which depicted a minor,” according to the release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The case was turned over to the FBI Southeast Michigan Crimes Against Children Taskforce. The FBI, with assistance from the Fraser School District and the Fraser Police Department, reviewed some of the images on Austin’s phone and discovered images of 12 minors and students from the Fraser School District.

Anyone with information related to Austin is asked to contact the FBI at 313-965-2323.