NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Metro police said on Tuesday they arrested a Murfreesboro science teacher accused of a variety of sex crimes over the last 30 years.

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Police said Louis J. Levine, 52, is accused of providing drugs to teenagers and allowing them to engage in sex at his home or property.

The investigation began March 25 after police received information from a concerned parent.

Levine lived at a home on Alton Road in Belle Meade and was also a substitute teacher in Nashville since 2002.

Metro detectives said they searched Levine's home March 31 and found a variety of computer equipment, DVDs and about 400 VHS tapes that were confiscated in the case.

Police said many of the tapes depict teens engaging in sexual activity. Authorities are interviewing students who had contact with Levine over the past 30 years.

The teens said they had no knowledge they were being recorded, according to police.

Four unnamed underage boys and an underage girl said Levine's house was built for sex and contained an isolation chamber inside the main house. Inside the chamber was a waterbed covered with a wooden box.

Levine allegedly provided teens with alcohol, drugs, porn and condoms.

"I want to thank the men and women assigned to the police department's Sex Crimes Unit for their dedication and commitment to very difficult cases such as this one," said Chief Ronal Serpas in a press release. "Matters involving minors are not easy to investigate. I have a strong appreciation for what these detectives do day-to-day."

Murfreesboro schools put Levine on administrative leave April 1 after officials learned he was under investigation.

Police said he has been estranged from his wife for years and lives alone.

Levine has previously been associated with what was the Cumberland Science Museum and is now the Adventure Science Center, as well as youth camps. His alleged victims, who are working with police, are from Davidson and Williamson counties.

"You could tell he was a very strange person. (He was) hard to communicate with. (He) just had different thoughts about things that didn't make sense to most people," said Levine's neighbor Sandra Griffith.

Teacher Had Variety Of Educational Jobs

The divorce filing from Levine's wife, Robin, was filed April 2 and lists irreconcilable differences as the grounds for divorce.

Robin Levine wrote in the filing that she recently learned of a criminal investigation into her husband and that she was fearful about her children being around him.

She also said she was concerned because Levine allowed teenagers to congregate at his home, provided them with marijuana and condoms. Robin Levine said he allowed them access to marijuana and to have sex while on his property.

On Louis Levine's personal Web site, he calls himself a veteran educator who offers exciting, hands-on adventures. His personal record indicates he has been interacting with kids for decades.

Louis Levine's work history, detailed in Metro school records, shows he worked at the Cumberland Science Museum, now known as the Adventure Science Center, as an educator for 17 years between 1980 and 1997.

He then went on to become an educator with Metro parks, a nature specialist at Camp Whippoorwill in Fairview, Tenn., and then a science teacher at Curry-Ingram Academy in Brentwood.

Levine was a substitute teacher three days last year for Metro at Harpeth Valley Elementary and Croft and McMurray middle schools. He had passed a fingerprint and background check. After being contacted by police, the school system took him out of the substitute pool.

Levine has been a first-year teacher for the Murfreesboro City school system, teaching science in various schools. He also passed a background check there. As of Tuesday, he is suspended without pay.

Levine also lists in his resume that he was the director of education at Grassmere Wildlife Park from 1980 to February of 1999. According to his divorce records, he has been a life-long resident of Nashville.

The only disciplinary action that Channel 4 found that Louis Levine has faced was in 2003 when he was banned from working at H.G. Middle School in Nashville after teachers and staff complained he was not supervising kids and fell asleep on a field trip.

He was later allowed to teach at other schools.

Channel 4 reporters Sara Dorsey, Nancy Amons and Jeremy Finley contributed to this report.

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