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CCSD elementary school teacher arrested

An elementary school teacher in the Clark County School District has been arrested. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Clark County School District Police Department (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

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An elementary school teacher in the Clark County School District has been arrested.

In a statement, the district’s police department said it arrested Manuel Ayala-Tovar, 33, on two counts of lewdness with a child. Ayala-Tovar was booked into the Clark County Detention Center.

The CCSDPD said “the charges stem from an investigation that was initiated at Cortez Elementary School in November 2024. Ayala-Tovar has been employed as a teacher in the district since September 2022. He has been assigned to home since the investigation began per the terms of the negotiated agreement with the bargaining unit.”

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