Tag: teachers and crime
Dunnellon, Florida -- A Romeo Elementary para-professional was arrested Thursday after a young student said he had touched her.
The investigation began on November 20, 2020, after a female student came forward and told school officials that Juvenal Gomez, 58,...
Ocala Police Department detectives arrested a Vanguard High School teacher's assistant after they were notified that he had been having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student.
Nicholas Elder, 31, has been charged with Unlawful Sex with a Minor.
On August...
A former New Smyrna Beach High School teacher was arrested Thursday and charged with Unlawful Sexual Activity with a Minor.
The student is a 16-year-old male.
According to reports, Megan Parris, 28, turned herself in after a judge signed a warrant...
A Lake Weir High School teacher was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly engaged in a sexual relationship with a teenage girl.
Jason Michael Tarlton, 30, an English literature teacher at the school, was having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old...
Marion County Sheriff's detectives believe that Dunnellon High School teacher Chester Pacana had inappropriate contact with other juveniles.
The teen came forward with the allegation on February 8, 2016. The incident was reported to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office on...
Dunnellon, Florida -- A Dunnellon High School teacher is under arrest after a 15-year-old female said he touched her breast during class.
The teen came forward with the allegation on February 8, 2016. The incident was reported to the Marion...
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Ocala, Florida -- Evergreen Elementary dean of students Patrick Sasnett was arrested following allegations that he exposed himself to a grandmother.
Sasnett is also a Pastor at the African Methodist Episcopal Church, located at 718 Northwest 7th Street, Ocala.
The victim stated...
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Deltona, Florida -- The former treasurer of a local Cub Scout pack is facing felony charges after a Volusia County Sheriff’s Office investigation revealed she stole close to $9,500 of the pack’s money to pay her own...
Seminole County, Florida -- The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office Crimes Against Children Unit yesterday arrested Michael Scott Fitzwater, 40, of Chuluota, on one count of Unlawful Sexual Contact with a Minor.
Investigators were contacted on September 21, 2014, after a...
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Lakeland, Florida -- 49-year-old Kelly Ann Karynn, of 164 Shadow Lane, Lakeland, was arrested yesterday by Polk County Sheriff’s Office detectives based upon a Polk County Warrant for corruption by threat against a public official.
Karynn is a...
Ocala, Florida -- A second juvenile has been identified as a victim of former Frances Marion Military Academy Teacher, Duane Adams.
In the course of the investigation against Adams, investigators learned that during the last school year there had been...
Ocala, Florida -- On Tuesday, January 14, 2014, Detective Jorge Fernandez arrested Duane Ernest Adams,54, a school teacher with Francis Marion Military Academy who served in the Army for 20 years, for one count of Interference with Child Custody....
Ocala, Florida -- On Friday, January 10, 2014, the parent of a 15-year-old student of Francis Marion Military Academy reported her daughter as a runaway. Earlier that morning, the mother had found teacher and retired Army Sergeant, Duane Ernest...
Fruita, Colorado -- Teacher Randy Majors, 58, of Fruita was arrested after a parent that was going through her 16 year-old daughters Facebook account found private messages between her daughter and Majors.
Majors is also a tennis coach.
Majors is accused...
Seminole County, Florida -- On October 29, 2013, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) Crimes Against Children (CAC) Unit arrested Harrison Jonathan Prater, 27, of Orlando, for lewd and lascivious behavior after he inappropriately touched a teenage girl.
Prater is...
A teacher is accused of engaging in various explicit sexual acts with a 16-year-old boy.
The Citrus County Sheriff’s Office has arrested Cynthia Herr, 35, after they received a tip on September 12, 2013, concerning inappropriate contact between Herr and...
Seminole County, Florida -- Daniel Kelley, 26, was arrested for sending sexual text messages to a 14-year-old student.
Kelley, a special needs teacher at Bridges Academy in Winter Springs was fired immediately following his arrest.
According to the sheriff's report, the...
Ocala, Florida -- Another teacher has been arrested for having an inappropriate relationship with a teen.
Christopher Votos, 58, was arrested at Fort King Middle School and suspended from his teacher's aide job.
Votos is accused of sending inappropriate texts to...
Stacey Dean Rambold, 54, a teacher who taught at Billings Senior High raped a 14-year-old-student in 2008. Rambold admitted to raping the 14-year-old girl when he was 49-years-old.
The teen spent the months following the rape trying to put her...
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Chesterfield, Virginia - A teacher in Virginia arrested for having a "relationship" with a 14-year-old.
Nicholas M. Ells, 29, of the 19700 block of Walker Avenue was arrested on August 15, 2013 for having an inappropriate relationship with juvenile who...