{"id":124473,"date":"2026-01-15T16:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124473\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:31:09","slug":"grand-prairie-police-arrest-teacher-following-student-grooming-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124473\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Prairie police arrest teacher following student grooming investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/grand-prairie-police-department-generic-grand-prairie-PD.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas &#8211; A Grand Prairie middle school notified parents on Wednesday that a teacher at the school was arrested on charges related to the alleged grooming of a student.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Grand Prairie police on Wednesday confirmed that Kelvin Leiva was arrested on Jan. 8, 2026 at his residence on third-degree felony charges relating to the alleged grooming of a student.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/kelvin-leiva-mug.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Leiva was placed on administrative leave by the school on Oct. 23, 2025, after the district received an anonymous report alleging inappropriate communication with a student.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Arnold Middle School principal Dexter Dixon said in a letter to parents that Leiva has not been on campus since he was placed on administrative leave. The letter reads as follows:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;The safety and well-being of our students are among our highest concerns. That\u2019s why I want to make you aware of a situation involving our school. The Grand Prairie Police Department notified us today that Kelvin Leiva, a teacher at Arnold Middle School, was arrested at his residence on third-degree felony charges related to the alleged grooming of a student. Mr. Leiva was placed on administrative leave October 23, after the district received an anonymous report alleging inappropriate communication with a student, and he has not been on campus since that time. The following day, October 24, law enforcement assumed responsibility for the investigation. We were informed today of the arrest. I want to thank you for your concern and support for our students and Arnold Middle School.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article was provided by Grand Prairie police and Grand Prairie ISD.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/grand-prairie\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Prairie<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas &#8211; A Grand Prairie middle school notified parents on Wednesday that a teacher at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1046,581,1279,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-124473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-dallas-county","13":"tag-grand-prairie","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}