Officer Richard Pacheco resigned from his position as a campus police officer at SM East due to an incident that occurred in Wyandotte County. According to KCTV5, Pacheco was arrested on Nov. 13 on an accusation of aggravated assault. He was placed on administrative leave by the Shawnee Mission School District on Nov. 15, and resigned three days later.
The incident occurred on Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. around I-670 and Central Avenue and he was later arrested at 4700 Parallel address, a Kansas City, Kan. police report stated.
“Placing employees on administrative leave is a standard practice,” said Leigh Anne Neal, Associate Superintendent of Communication for the school district. “It allows the district to look into the situation.”
The administration at East received notice of Pacheco’s resignation from his supervisor, Lt. Steve Beck.
“We did not receive any other information other than the fact he had resigned, effective immediately,” said Molli Armstrong-White, Associate Principal at SM East.
![Forest elephant vs honey bee. Most people would say that the elephant has the easy victory in this situation but Junior Mallory Wilkerson decided to take the risk and side with the bee for one of the first rounds in the biology class March Mammals Madness competition.
The honey bee created an upset by not only beating the elephant in the first round but also defeating the Flame Bowerbird in the second round of the animal tournament. Wilkerson ended up winning the tournament in her IB Biology class with 82 points out of the possible perfect bracket 128.
“I did get into it and I looked up every single animal, and the how the weird battlefields worked or whatever the habitat was,” Wilkerson said. “Most of it was just applying some logic but [the March Mammal Madness tournament] was a fun and easy way to get some extra credit.”
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