AKRON, Ohio – A Kent State University English professor faces multiple felony charges after he was busted with a 15-year-old boy in his vehicle at an elementary school parking lot in Akron.

Police responded to Smith Elementary School around 11 p.m. last Wednesday when someone reported a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot.

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“When the officer approached the vehicle, the windows were steamed up and the car was moving, bouncing,” Akron Police Capt. Daniel Zampelli told the Akron Beacon Journal.

Willie J. Harrell Jr., a 44-year-old English professor at Kent State University, allegedly emerged from the back seat with a 15-year-old boy he met online three days prior. Police contend Harrell admitted to arranging the meeting “with the purpose of pursuing a sexual relationship” with the child, according to the news site.

Harrell allegedly drove about 25 miles to Akron, picked the boy up at his home and drove to the elementary school, where things were getting hot and heavy. Both Harrell and the teen deny any sex occurred before officers arrived, however, ABC 5 reports.

Harrell was immediately charged with adult curfew, a misdemeanor. He was later charged with attempted unlawful sexual contact with a minor and importuning, both felonies. Police also searched his home and seized several computers, but would not disclose their findings to the media.

Harrell was suspended from Kent State University, where he has taught English since 2003 and worked with the provost on special diversity projects, the Toledo Blade reports.

“He has helped to recruit, retain and mentor black, Latino and Native American faculty and staff, according to his resume. He also is the author of the books Origins of the African American Jeremiad and We Wear the Mask: Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Politics of Representative Reality,” according to the news site.

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University officials immediately suspended Harrell with pay and issued a statement about his arrest Thursday. School was set to start today.

“University leaders are aware of the arrest, and Professor Harrell has been suspended pending the investigation,” according to the statement. “He will have no contact with our students, and his courses will be taught by other faculty members.”

The professor’s biography on the Kent State University website shows he hold a Master of Arts degree, as well as a Doctor of Philosophy, both from Wayne State University and “both in English/African-American Literature and Cultural Studies.”

“Before joining the KSU faculty, Professor Harrell taught at Wayne State, Lawrence Technological University, University of Detroit-Mercy, and for the Archdiocese of New Orleans school system,” according to the site.