WADSWORTH: A former Wadsworth High School teacher was arrested Thursday after being indicted on a felony charge of tampering with evidence.
Benjamin Klafczynski, 28, was released from the Medina County jail on a $10,000 bond.
The charges against Klafczynski are rooted in a Wadsworth police investigation that began Dec. 5 into possible inappropriate conduct between Klafczynski and one or more students at the high school, Chief Randy Reinke said Thursday.
Reinke declined to specify what the conduct may have involved because the investigation is not yet complete.
It’s unclear how the tampering with evidence charge grew out of the police probe, but court records show the action behind the charge happened Nov. 1, more than a month before the misconduct investigation began.
Reinke said Wadsworth school officials did a parallel investigation into the matter, too.
School officials have not publicly released the results of their investigation and declined to provide further information Friday.
“We do not comment on staff or student situations,” Wadsworth Schools Superintendant Andrew Hill said by email when contacted by the Beacon Journal.
Klafczynski taught marketing at the high school. At the same time, he had also coached girls golf and girls basketball at Archbishop Hoban High School. It was unclear Friday if he was still coaching. No Hoban officials could be reached.
