BANNING, Calif. (KABC) -- The dean of students at a middle school in Banning is behind bars in a child sex case.
Police arrested 55-year old Charles Mayer on Friday.
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Officers say he'd been chatting on social media with someone he believed was a 14-year old boy. It was actually detectives.
They arrested him at the place he'd arranged to meet the boy.
Mayer was recently appointed dean of students at Nicolet Middle School.
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Before that, he was a teacher there.
The school district released a statement saying Mayer is now on unpaid administrative leave and is prohibited from entering any district facility or school during the investigation.