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Just two days after the LaPorte School Board officially accepted his sudden retirement request, former LaPorte schools Interim Superintendent Rande Thorpe was arrested on a gaming charge in Mississippi.
The arrest appeared on the website of the Tunica County, MS, sheriff’s office, and also appears on the arrest site “recentlybusted.com” (http://arrests.me/rande-thorpe/)
The booking information from the sheriff’s office website states: “Rande Thorpe, 57, arrested Jan. 22, 2014, by Tunica County, Mississippi Sheriff’s Department and charged with gaming violation.” WNLP has not obtained the entire police report.
Thorpe served as interim superintendent of LaPorte schools from July 2013 until this January. Prior to that he was chief financial officer for LaPorte schools for about five years. He was named interim superintendent when Glade Montgomery resigned to take another job in July. Thorpe was presumably in line to be named superintendent when he abruptly retired. He cited family reasons for retiring.
The LaPorte School Board is in the process of finding another interim superintendent.