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Detention Hearing Rescheduled

For Accused CCS Gym Teacher

COOPERSTOWN – Today’s detention hearing for Justin Hobbie, 41, the CCS phys-ed teacher facing child pornography charges, has been rescheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19, in U.S. District Court in Syracuse.

Though he was scheduled for this afternoon, his lawyer, Kimberly Zimmer, Syracuse, requested the adjournment, and Magistrate Judge Therese Wiley Dancks agreed to move it one week.

CCS Community Meeting at 6:30 Today;
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Hobbie was arrested last Friday by Homeland Security agents, following a five-month investigation into which Special Agent James Hamilton allegedly tracked that Hobbie was downloading and distributing explicit material featuring children alleged to be as young a 3 years old over peer-to-peer file-sharing services. He is currently being held in jail near Syracuse.

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