CULPEPER (WINA) – Culpeper High School’s choir teacher has been arrested after being alleged to have used communications systems to solicit a teen boy. 47-year old Craig Alexander Smith was appointed as choir teacher for CCPS in 2022, and was currently working in the summer school program. He was also director of the Blue Ridge Choral for five years, and a worship leader at Culpeper Baptist Church.

The Sheriff’s office said the mother of a 16-year old male reported a Culpeper High School teacher was possibly grooming her son for sexual activity, and provided him with a cellphone and provided him rides home from work. Investigators say Smith has admitted providing the cellphone and requesting nude photos from the juvenile.

He was committed to the Culpeper County Jail on a $2000 secured bond.