{"id":86887,"date":"2026-11-02T20:55:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=86887"},"modified":"2026-11-02T20:55:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:55:49","slug":"florida-youth-football-coach-arrested-in-child-sting-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/11\/02\/florida-youth-football-coach-arrested-in-child-sting-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Youth Football Coach Arrested in Child Sting Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Staff<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florida Youth Football Coach Brought Sex Toys in Uber Eats Bag to Meet Minor<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-dominant-color=\"63635f\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"479\" height=\"640\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/images-5.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86888 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #63635f; width:308px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/images-5.webp 479w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/images-5-225x300.webp 225w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During an undercover human trafficking and child exploitation operation led by the Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, <strong>281 total suspects were arrested<\/strong> across the multi-day undercover sting.<sup><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Case Details<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Suspect:<\/strong> A youth football head coach based in Davenport, Florida.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Allegations:<\/strong> The suspect communicated online with an undercover detective who was posing as a 14-year-old girl. He subsequently arranged an in-person meeting intending to solicit the minor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Incident:<\/strong> Upon arriving at the designated meeting location, the coach arrived carrying an insulated <strong>Uber Eats delivery bag<\/strong>. Instead of food, the bag contained battery-operated sex toys intended for the encounter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Arrest &amp; Charges:<\/strong> Law enforcement officers detained him at the scene, charging him with offenses related to the solicitation of a minor and illegal travel to meet a child.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Staff Florida Youth Football Coach Brought Sex Toys in Uber Eats Bag to Meet Minor During an undercover human trafficking and child exploitation operation led by the Polk County&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzExXC9pbWFnZXMtNS53ZWJwIiwidHh0IjoiRmxvcmlkYSBZb3V0aCBGb290YmFsbCBDb2FjaCBBcnJlc3RlZCBpbiBDaGlsZCBTdGluZyBPcGVyYXRpb24iLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImRvaXMiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.l9iAxmAcwU8MFxXhQpBoKgmV_PVUpMIt2PQk2tRBiIAMQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzExXC9pbWFnZXMtNS53ZWJwIiwidHh0IjoiRmxvcmlkYSBZb3V0aCBGb290YmFsbCBDb2FjaCBBcnJlc3RlZCBpbiBDaGlsZCBTdGluZyBPcGVyYXRpb24iLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImRvaXMiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.l9iAxmAcwU8MFxXhQpBoKgmV_PVUpMIt2PQk2tRBiIAMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[15527,18907,18913,16126,18761,15790,18912],"class_list":["post-86887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-child-exploitation","tag-child-sting-operation","tag-coach-arrested","tag-davenport-florida","tag-human-trafficking","tag-polk-county-sheriff","tag-youth-football"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86889,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86887\/revisions\/86889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}