A former Arvada instructor arrested Monday for reportedly creating and promoting baby sexual assault materials was discovered to have violated St. Vrain Valley School District insurance policies in 2023 for interactions he had with college students at Erie Middle School, and officers advisable the instructor not return to the district.
That discovering was not shared with Jefferson County School District when it employed the instructor, in accordance with an arrest affidavit.
SVVSD officers mentioned Wednesday that they have been evaluating whether or not they might fireplace the instructor, 39-year-old Patricio Alejandro Illanes, when he resigned in late 2023.
Illanes faces 40 counts of sexual exploitation of a kid along with 10 counts of illegal apply of occupation or career, in accordance with a Boulder County Sheriff’s Office launch.
Illanes reportedly photographed or took movies of at the least 10 college students at 4 totally different colleges or youth program places, together with Centaurus High School, New Meridian High School and Erie Middle School, over the course of 9 years, in accordance with an arrest affidavit.
In 2023, a faculty worker reported to an Erie police college useful resource officer that he had overheard a 14-year-old boy describe an interplay he had with Illanes to a different scholar.
The boy mentioned Illanes had requested him to remain after class to assist him with a video challenge, and the boy agreed, in accordance with the affidavit. Illanes then instructed the boy to take away his shirt and sneakers and fake to be a lifeguard. The scholar mentioned Illanes informed him that he would fake to chloroform him and instructed the coed to fake to be knocked out.
When Erie police interviewed Illanes, he “provided a similar story” however mentioned he by no means touched the scholars inappropriately and that their shirts remained on, in accordance with the affidavit. Illanes gave police the movies he had recorded, which confirmed the interplay described by the coed, however with the coed sporting a lifeguard shirt over a long-sleeve shirt.
Two different minors later informed police Illanes requested them to assist him with a challenge, then videotaped or photographed them in costumes.
In an October 2025 interview with police, Illanes mentioned he didn’t use the movies for sexual gratification and understood the incident was “not an appropriate thing,” in accordance with the affidavit.
The Erie police felony investigation into the incident was “unfounded,” in accordance with the affidavit.
An SVVSD inner investigation discovered that Illanes had violated district insurance policies and advisable that he “not return” to Erie Middle School or any college within the district.
Illanes resigned in December that 12 months. He was employed to work at Arvada Senior High School in 2024.
When Illanes resigned, SVVSD was evaluating whether or not it had “sufficient grounds” below state instructor employment legal guidelines to fireplace him, in accordance with Kerri McDermid, the district’s chief of employees and strategic priorities.
Jefferson County School District officers informed police they by no means obtained the SVVSD inner investigation report, and had they identified about it, they wouldn’t have employed Illanes, the affidavit acknowledged.
SVVSD officers informed police Jeffco officers had not requested for the report and that that they had been served a courtroom doc limiting them from sharing it, however didn’t present the courtroom doc to police, in accordance with the affidavit.
McDermid mentioned the SVVSD human sources division and Illanes’ former supervisor at Erie Middle School would not have a report of receiving a reference or info request from Jeffco officers till October 2025. At that point, the district offered the knowledge they have been allowed to reveal below legislation, she mentioned.
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