IDEA educator facing charge of having sex with underage female student

A Borderland educator is behind bars and facing a charge of having an improper relationship with a female student, according to a news release issued by the Socorro Police Department on Friday evening, Sept. 8. After a months-long investigation, the Socorro Police Criminal Investigations Division obtained a warrant for the arrest of William D. Patterson, who was identified as an educator at IDEA Public Schools. The news release did not say which IDEA campus Patterson works at or if he is a teacher.