LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A trainer for a Las Vegas constitution faculty was arrested on costs associated to baby intercourse crimes.
Based on on-line jail data, Marco Penaloza Jr., 30, was booked into the Clark County Detention Middle on Wednesday on two counts of use or allow a minor aged 14 or older to be topic of sexual portrayal in a efficiency.
Penaloza labored on the Younger Ladies’s Management Academy of Las Vegas, situated within the 3400 block of South Mojave Highway. YWLA is a public constitution faculty for women in grades six by means of 10.
In an announcement to eight Information Now, the college’s principal, Kat Draper, mentioned YWLA was made conscious of the police investigation on Wednesday and Penaloza was “immediately removed from their duties and was terminated upon their arrest.”
Draper mentioned the police investigation and arrest doesn’t contain any YWLA college students or workers members.
A search of Penaloza’s Nevada instructing license on the state’s training web site confirmed he taught math at Mater Academy East Las Vegas from 2022 to 2025.
Mater Academy, situated within the 3900 block of East Bonanza Rd, declined to remark to eight Information Now on Thursday concerning the investigation and Penaloza’s tenure.
Penaloza is scheduled to seem in Las Vegas Justice Court docket on Tuesday, Sept. 30. He was held on the Clark County Detention Middle on a $100,000 bail.
If he makes bail, Penaloza shall be ordered to be on high-level digital monitoring and don’t have any contact with minors.
