{"id":110892,"date":"2026-01-08T21:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/110892\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T21:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:11:18","slug":"broward-chorus-teacher-arrested-accused-of-inappropriate-conduct-with-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/110892\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward chorus teacher arrested, accused of inappropriate conduct with student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0January 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/UN4WDN3HPVETBOKWHO7S352AF4.jpg\"  width=\"720\" height=\"405\"\/>Christopher Santanelli (BSO) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PLANTATION, Fla. \u2014 Police arrested a chorus teacher at a Broward County high school on Thursday on a charge related to inappropriate conduct with a student.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Christopher Santanelli, 42, has been reassigned from his role at South Plantation High School \u2015 away from students \u2015 pending the outcome of the investigation, a Broward County Public Schools spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to jail records, Plantation police arrested Santanelli on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leg.state.fl.us\/statutes\/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&amp;Search_String=&amp;URL=0800-0899\/0800\/Sections\/0800.101.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.leg.state.fl.us\/statutes\/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&amp;Search_String=&amp;URL=0800-0899\/0800\/Sections\/0800.101.html\">a charge<\/a> of soliciting or engaging in a romantic relationship as an authority figure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Details about the allegations that led to Santanelli\u2019s arrest weren\u2019t immediately available as of Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News has requested a copy of his arrest report.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0January 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandChristopher Santanelli (BSO) PLANTATION, Fla. \u2014 Police arrested a chorus teacher at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-110892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}