A former professor at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania has been detained in Panama, months after skipping bail and fleeing the country to avoid facing child-pornography charges, the Associated Press reported today.
Richard W. Gibbs was arrested in North Carolina in June, was freed on $25,000 bail, but then failed to show up for a court hearing in July. He was wanted in Pennsylvania and two other states (The Chronicle, August 2).
Mr. Gibbs was hired by the communications department at Shippensburg in 1990 and resigned last spring after police officers found images of child pornography on his office computer.
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