JCPS Teacher Arrested On Drug Charges

A Jefferson County Public Schools teacher was reassigned after being arrested on drug charges.

Ralph Loechle, a 51-year-old social studies teacher at Eastern High School, was arrested in Shelby County over the weekend.

According to the arrest report, an officer pulled him over because the plate on his car didn’t match the registration. When the officer asked Loechle to step out of the vehicle, he said the car smelled like marijuana. The officer then found a burnt joint inside a cigarette box in Loechle’s pocket, as well as marijuana and drug paraphernalia inside the car…

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