A former police officer and volunteer teacher was arrested Tuesday, accused of having sex with a 14-year-old boy. Michael Gregory Miles was an officer with the Oak Hill Police Department.
Eyewitness News learned the school did not do a background check on Miles before he started working with kids. Miles is related to the school's owners.
Michael Miles was a police officer, he was family and he was trusted, but the relationship he started with a 14-year-old boy from Edgewater's Private Discovery Academy, has led to three felony charges against the former officer.
"You would never think he was creepy or anything like that, where you would think something was going on. Never, never in a million years," said administrator Nancy Solman.
Edgewater investigators said the affair started at the school last year, after Miles had resigned as an officer.
Court documents show the boy was at Spruce Creek High School in April when he revealed the affair to classmates.
He and Miles then told police everything. They said they met first in the parking lot of a local grocery store.
Later, it was a more secluded place, a heavily wooded area in a residential neighborhood. They used email and MySpace to set up the meetings.
"With him, you would have never thought anything because he was with law enforcement. That's the whole thing; he had that whole law enforcement background," said Solman.
The school has cameras inside and officials said Miles was supervised when he was with students.
Police say they don't have any reason to believe there are any other victims. These are not the first charges against Miles.
He is supposed to be in court later this week on charges of grand theft and impersonating a police officer, something he's accused of doing after he quit as an officer in Oak Hill.
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