Ex-band teacher ‘caught in teen’s bedroom’ - after being fired for previous communication with the same victim

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. After a three-year investigation, Patrick John Mester, 65, has been charged with two counts of arranging to meet with a minor for lewd purposes and lewd acts with a minor, records from the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office reveal. In a press release, the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office said Mester was detained on October 23 and that the investigation into the case “has been trailing since 2021.” Mester was arrested in March of that year and he lost his job as a band teacher at James C Enochs High School in Modesto after the city’s police department detained him for inappropriate communication with a student, a 16-year-old girl. A second investigation was launched by the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office in October 2021 after Mester was found in the girl’s bedroom by her mother. Patrick John Mester was previously a teacher at James C Enochs High School and now has been arrested after being caught in a teen’s bedroom, cops say Modesto City Schools said at the time that they “took immediate action to ensure he has zero contact with students and revoked his right to visit our facilities.