Cedar Lake, IN — A teacher at an Indiana high school was fired and is accused of taking students to a strip club and allowing them to drink at his home.

31-year-old Travis Lechien is a chemistry teacher at Hanover Central High School in Cedar Lake.  According to a probable cause affidavit, prepared by Lake County prosecutors, some students at the school have visited Lechien at his home and “on four or five separate occasions, Mr Lechien allowed” the students to drink beer and smoked a hooka belonging to Lechien.

The affidavit also states that Lechien took students to a strip club to celebrate one of the student’s 18th birthdays. 

Lechien has been a teacher at the school for 9 years. He is facing three counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. His is expected to make an appearance in court in November.