{"id":740189,"date":"2026-06-16T09:24:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/740189\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:24:46","slug":"edmonton-teacher-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges-after-fleeing-the-country-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/740189\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton teacher arrested on child pornography charges after fleeing the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Catholic high school teacher, Jimmy Buena, was arrested at the Edmonton International Airport, on charges for making, accessing, possessing, and transmitting child pornography.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Buena previously worked at St. Oscar Romero Catholic High School in west Edmonton, before the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) issued a warrant for his arrest in June 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An ALERT spokesperson said at the time that it was believed Buena left for the\u00a0Philippines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An ALERT spokesperson told CBC News Monday that he was arrested on Apr. 15, 2026, and has since been released from custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The spokesperson said Buena isn&#8217;t facing any new charges for fleeing, at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators previously alleged that Buena had distributed child sexual abuse materials using Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A spokesperson for the Edmonton Catholic School Division said that a letter has been sent to parents and families of students attending St. Oscar Romero Catholic High School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The letter said there was no information to suggest that any of Buena\u2019s students were involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Buena is scheduled to appear in court on June 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catholic high school teacher, Jimmy Buena, was arrested at the Edmonton International Airport, on charges for making, accessing,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[6965,49,48,183245,23752,180953,265626,36849,196745],"class_list":["post-740189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-alberta-law-enforcement-response-teams","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-child-sexual-abuse","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-international-airport","tag-jimmy-buena","tag-spokesperson","tag-west-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}