{"id":288974,"date":"2026-05-29T15:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288974\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:17:08","slug":"fort-lauderdale-teacher-arrested-for-lewd-touching-of-minor-jail-records-show-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288974\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale teacher arrested for lewd touching of minor, jail records show \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teacher at a Fort Lauderdale high school was arrested after he sought an inappropriate relationship with a student, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Basil Billings, 63, was arrested Thursday by Fort Lauderdale Police on charges of offenses against a student by an authority figure and lewd or lascivious touching of certain minors (victim 16-17), Broward jail records showed.<\/p>\n<p>Online records show Billings is a reading teacher at Dillard High School.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale Police said Billings was arrested following an investigation into a series of events at Dillard High.<\/p>\n<p>Billings attempted to have an inappropriate relationship with a student that included inappropriate comments, notes and physical touching, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken into custody at a Broward County Public Schools Administration office with the help of Broward County Schools Police and booked into jail.<\/p>\n<p>Billings was expected to appear in bond court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>NBC6 is working to obtain an arrest report and more information about his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Check back with NBC6 for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teacher at a Fort Lauderdale high school was arrested after he sought an inappropriate relationship with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-288974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288974","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=288974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}