School official resigns over solicitation case

Benjamin Grove

Monday, Dec. 21, 1998 | 11:16 a.m.

A Clark County Schools administrator who was arrested for soliciting a prostitute has resigned.

School officials say Ronald Malcolm, who supervised the hearing- and vision- impaired programs for the district, filed his resignation papers on Friday.

School officials told Malcolm, 36, to stay home after he was arrested on the misdemeanor charge by Metro's undercover vice officers at 11 a.m. Dec. 10, a time when Malcolm was supposed to be working. Malcolm was suspended without pay on Dec. 16, while district officials investigated his actions and tried to determine whether Malcolm had solicited prostitutes before on district time.

"It's over," said Assistant Superintendent Edward Goldman, referring to the district's investigation. "We're done with him."

Malcolm, who has some hearing and vision loss, supervised teachers in his position that paid $69,000 a year. School officials have said there is no evidence he did anything inappropriate with children.

Metro officers met Malcolm in a chat room on the Internet on America Online on Dec. 9, according to the arrest report. Malcolm set up a meeting with an undercover officer for the next day at Appollo Collections, 953 E. Sahara Ave., a "male bathhouse" according to the report.

School officials declined to say if Malcolm used a school computer to contact the officer.

The officer met Malcolm at the Appollo and the two went to an unmarked police car, because Malcolm wanted to smoke marijuana, according to police records. But once in the car, the officer told Malcolm that they should wait to smoke marijuana until they knew each other better.

The two then discussed having sex in the Appollo, records say.

"(Malcolm) said if you meet a guy online, you pay his way to the club, referring to the Appollo, we get a private room and we could have sex there without being bothered," according to the report.

Malcolm told the officer he would need $25 for sex and that the officer should pay his own admission into the Appollo, police records said.

The two then got out of the car and "Malcolm told me to give him the money and held out his hand," the undercover officer wrote in the report.

A Metro surveillance team then arrested Malcolm without incident. He was later released on bail.

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