DALLAS COUNTY, Mo. — A Dallas County, Missouri, teacher has been arrested after an alleged sex crime charge out of West Virginia.

According to the probable cause statement, Jonathan Whatley, born in 1979, had a warrant out of McDowell County, West Virginia, for one count of distribution or possession of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

The statement says that around 11:10 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 29, deputies from the Dallas County Sheriff's Office were notified by a school resource officer at Dallas County R-1 High School of a teacher potentially having a warrant.

Law enforcement identified the teacher as Whatley and spoke with him in the officer's classroom as students were in their lunch period.

The man was later taken to the Dallas County Detention Office, and authoritie

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