{"id":264718,"date":"2026-05-09T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264718\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:25:08","slug":"miami-dade-high-school-teacher-faces-multiple-sex-crime-charges-involving-minor-records-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264718\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade high school teacher faces multiple sex crime charges involving minor, records show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 9, 2026 at 7:06 AM<\/p>\n<p>A Miami Jackson Senior High School teacher is facing multiple sex-related charges involving a minor, according to jail records obtained by Local 10 News on Saturday.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 A Miami Jackson Senior High School teacher is facing multiple sex-related charges involving a minor, according to jail records obtained by Local 10 News. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Records show Leroy Wright, 46, is facing one count each of offenses against students by authority figures, unlawful sexual activity with a specific minor and a charge related to obscene materials involving a minor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The school, located at 1751 NW 36th St. in Miami\u2019s Allapattah neighborhood, lists Wright as a teacher on its <a href=\"https:\/\/jacksonshs.org\/apps\/pages\/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1719572&amp;type=u\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/jacksonshs.org\/apps\/pages\/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1719572&amp;type=u\">website<\/a> as of Saturday morning. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/RISGBDEIB5CDPDAY23LUK6GERA.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"497\"\/>Leroy Wright, who is facing multiple sex crimes involving at least one minor, is listed as a teacher on the website of Miami Jackson Senior High School.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wright, who was arrested on Friday, is scheduled to appear before a judge Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade County Public Schools has been contacted for comment as investigators work to learn more about the circumstances leading to his arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 has also requested his arrest report from local authorities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Saturday morning, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where his bond was listed as \u201cto be set.\u201d <\/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=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 9, 2026 at 7:06 AM A Miami Jackson Senior High School teacher is facing multiple sex-related charges&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-264718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264718","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=264718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}