WSU official arrested in molestation case

Published 3:28 pm Monday, August 5, 2013

PULLMAN, Wash. — A Washington State University employee has been arrested in connection with a report of child molestation.

Pullman police arrested Jud Preece on Sunday. He is WSU’s senior associate director of membership services for the school’s alumni association.

The Spokesman-Review reported that Preece was booked into the Whitman County Jail on suspicion of molesting a 13-year-old girl.

Pullman police spokesman Chris Tennant says officers first learned of the case on Saturday from a relative of the victim.