Visalia high school principal arrested on felony charges for vehicle vandalism

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Visalia Unified School District principal, 46-year-old Alejandro Marroquin, was down bars this week aft being arrested connected felony charges.

The Visalia Police Department says officers responded to a vandalism study successful this vicinity connected West Hurley Avenue connected Monday.

Officers arrested Marroquin, for damaging a vehicle.

Police accidental the proprietor of the conveyance is idiosyncratic Marroquin had a home narration with.

"It tin beryllium charged arsenic either a felony oregon a misdemeanor. The information that helium was arrested connected felony arsenic opposed to misdemeanor vandalism is suggestive that the spot harm was possibly much extended and that's what justified it being a felony charge," says Attorney and Legal Analyst, Kevin Little.

According to Mt. Whitney High School's website, Marroquin is the principal.

Action quality spoke to assemblage members who shared their concerns regarding Marroquin's actions.

We reached retired to the territory and its committee members, each said they had nary remark connected the arrest.

"It's important that we comport ourselves to acceptable an example, due to the fact that the assemblage looks to america for ways to enactment appropriately, peculiarly if you're moving precise intimately with children. So it's concerning. Also the information that he's a module member. It opens him up to consequences extracurricular of the Criminal tribunal process," explains Little.

California Education Code prohibits radical convicted of a convulsive oregon superior felony from being employed.

Non-violent felons indispensable beryllium by "clear and convincing evidence" that they person been rehabilitated for astatine slightest 1 twelvemonth to beryllium employed.

But the California Commission connected Teacher Credentialing could determine whether oregon not one's credential remains valid.

"Absolutely. I've had clients, sadly enough, who yet were vindicated successful tribunal who, inactive conscionable based connected the allegations, had issues with their credentials. So the Teacher Credentialing Commission takes its relation precise seriously, and its result is abstracted and independent, and could adjacent beryllium contrary to the result of the transgression tribunal process," Kevin Little, Attorney Legal Analyst.

The Tulare County District Attorney's bureau is waiting connected the last study to reappraisal it.

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