More details have been released on Alexandria resident Timothy McGhee, a substitute teacher in Arlington charged in January with stalking and taking indecent liberties with an underage Washington-Liberty High School student.
McGhee, a 47-year-old substitute math teacher at Washington-Liberty High School in Arlington, unsuccessfully ran for state Senate in Arlington and Alexandria in 2011. He was arrested on Jan. 10 and charged with stalking and taking indecent liberties with a child by a person in a supervisory or custodial relationship.
The victim reported to police in January that she and McGhee’s romantic relationship started in the fall of 2022, when she was 16 years old and he was 45 years old, according to a recently released search warrant affidavit.
The victim told police that she and McGhee grew closer in the fall of 2022 after he started working as her private math tutor after school.
“(The victim) said he frequently would give her small pieces of paper that contained references to Jesus and that he possessed many small-sized New Testament bibles,” police said in the search warrant affidavit.
The victim also reported that McGhee sent messages to her with a black iPad and that he gave her access to a Google Drive file with his daily schedule. She told police she visited McGhee’s classroom multiple times each day.
The victim said that in Oct. 2022, McGhee told her that he “wanted to marry someone who was a Christian and that (the victim) looked like the perfect wife for him,” according to the search warrant affidavit.
Once the math tutoring started near the end of 2022, the victim reported that she and McGhee would meet for hour-long sessions on Google Meet and then talk on the phone afterward. She also said that he would pick her up in the evening and that she performed oral sex in his car multiple times.
The victim also described to police a trip that she and McGhee took to Chicago, Illinois, in May 2023.
“She said she had told her mother that someone in Mr. McGhee’s family had died and that Mr. McGhee wanted company for the long drive to Chicago for the funeral,” according to the search warrant affidavit. “She said her mother allowed her to go on the trip with Mr. McGhee.”
During that trip, the victim told police that she performed oral sex on McGhee “numerous times,” according to the search warrant affidavit.
The victim also provided police with photos of her and McGhee at Indiana Dunes National Park in Porter, Indiana.
There were at least five times that the victim and McGhee met secretly at her home, she told police. She was 16 and 17 years old during the incidents, she said.
The victim said McGhee created a website to chat. According to the search warrant affidavit, McGhee’s moniker on the site was “CR,” short for cinnamon roll, a nickname she used to call him that he enjoyed.
The victim told police that she and McGhee had consensual sex twice in his apartment in Old Town in Dec. 2024 — after she turned 18.
“But shortly thereafter, she ended their relationship and then reported it to the police,” according to the search warrant affidavit.
McGhee was arrested by the Arlington County Police Department’s Special Victims Unit. They seized a number of laptops and tablets at his home.
Detectives believe there could be additional victims. Anyone with information related to the investigation or who had inappropriate encounters with the suspect can contact Detective S. Yanda at 703-228-4244 or [email protected].
Anonymous tips can be provided to the Arlington County Crime Solvers hotline at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477).
