Ezequiel Barragan, 48 of Aliso Viejo was arrested yesterday on charges of possessing child pornography and child molestation. Barragan, a Spanish teacher at Dana Hills High School is being held on $500,000 bail after investigators said he was the focus of a United States Postal Service child pornography investigation.

The minor who authorities say was a victim of the child molestation was not a student at the high school. If convicted of possession of child pornography and child molestation, Barragan faces lifetime registration as a sex offender and state prison incarceration.