A Clark County School District middle school teacher has been arrested on lewdness charges.
Kweku Turkson, 37, an English teacher at West Prep Academy, was arrested Friday by Metro Police, according to Clark County School officials. He had not been teaching in the classroom since October, pending an internal investigation.
Turkson is being held in the Clark County Detention Center on three counts of lewdness with a child under 14 and one count of attempted lewdness with a child under 14.
He has been with the school district since Aug. 2015.
