A former Warwick High School band director and teacher is back in jail — again.

Todd Sheerer, 30, was returned to Lancaster County Prison on Thursday afternoon after police said he was caught with the female student with whom he had a two-year sexual relationship — a violation of his bail conditions.

Sheerer, of 3471 Coronet Ave., who is awaiting trial on six counts of corruption of minors for having a relationship with the girl, was scheduled to have a hearing on the status of his bail this afternoon before Lancaster County Court Judge Jeffery Wright.

In January, after Sheerer was arrested on charges filed by police in Warwick Township, Lititz, Manheim, Manheim Township and Penn Township, the former band director was released on $25,000 bail, with the condition he not have any unsupervised contact with the alleged victim.

But in March, police learned Sheerer had bought a cell phone to reinstate contact with the teenager. Sheerer's bail was revoked and he was returned to jail again, until he posted $250,000 cash bail.

Earlier this week, police were contacted by the alleged victim, saying Sheerer had been having contact with her again.

Specifically, Warwick Township Police Detective Ed Tobin said on Monday afternoon the teenager, who is now 18, told her grandmother she was going for a walk in the woods behind her home.

The grandmother, who was caring for the girl while her parents were out of town, became concerned when the teenager seemed to be gone an unusually long period of time.

She went looking for the teenager in the woods, Tobin said, and found her with Sheerer.

Police said Sheerer took off running when he saw the teenager's grandmother approaching them in the woods.

Later that day, Tobin said, the alleged victim went to Lititz Police Detective John Schofield, telling him that she had been contacted several times by her former teacher.

Police, along with Assistant District Attorney Karen Mansfield, went to court to have a bench warrant issued for Sheerer's arrest, asking the judge to revoke his bail.

On Thursday, Tobin said Sheerer agreed to meet police at the East Orange Street office of defense attorney Merrill Spahn. Sheerer was turned over to the sheriff's deputies and taken to the prison.

According to court documents filed at the time of Sheerer's arrest, the teenager told investigators she had been involved in a relationship with the teacher beginning in January 2006.

The teenager told police that she and Sheerer met in the band room and the backstage wardrobe changing room of Warwick High School, kissed and had intimate sexual contact "numerous times" during a two-year period, according to the court documents.

The teenager also told police that Sheerer would tell her or write her notes suggesting she "wear certain clothing to school" so she could expose herself to him "inside the band room when the two were alone," according to the affidavit.

The alleged inappropriate relationship came to the attention of authorities on the afternoon of Jan. 18, 2008, according to court documents, when a Manheim Township policeman, responding to an anonymous call, found the couple in a restaurant parking lot.

Sheerer and the teenager were in the back seat of a car parked behind a family restaurant on Oregon Pike, according to the affidavit.

Sheerer's jeans were unzipped and he told the officer the female was 19 years old, according to court documents. Police said they later determined the girl's real age, which at the time was 17.

The Warwick Township school board fired Sheerer last month and agreed to provide $75,000 in an insurance payment to the alleged victim's family to be used for emotional counseling.

Staff writer Janet Kelley can be reached at jkelley@LNPnews.com or 481-6026.