There’s been another bizarre twist in the Myers University saga: The president of the nonprofit Cleveland business college, who has been pressing to close the institution rather than sell it to investors, was arrested and jailed for 24 hours on Thursday after a judge ruled that he had violated a court-imposed gag order, according to The Plain Dealer.

The president, Richard Scaldini, announced on Monday that the financially ailing college would close in December. But investors who have formed an entity called UNVA Virginia Properties are trying to buy the college instead, and on Monday they persuaded Judge Daniel Gaul of the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court to block the sale.

Some of the people associated with UNVA Virginia Properties are also owners of a for-profit college called the University of Northern Virginia, which was founded in 1998.

Judge Gaul, who ordered the president to be jailed, is holding a hearing today to help sort out the fate of Myers. —Goldie Blumenstyk