Wetzell may have been in trouble before

When Rock Falls resident and former educator Mike Wetzell left his teaching position in Henry County and took a job as a dean of students in a Montgomery County district, he came recommended and with a resume that showed he was once a trusted officer of the law. Now Wetzell, 31, is charged with the sexual assault of a 17-year-old Litchfield high school student in Montgomery County. Those charges were filed in March. He subsequently was charged in Henry County where officials allege he inappropriately touched a 13-year-old Annawan School District student - an incident that occurred in September 2006. Although the second set of charges came to the attention of police well after the fact, prosecutors say Annawan school officials knew about the