{"id":66803,"date":"2025-08-14T04:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T04:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/66803\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T04:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T04:54:08","slug":"orange-county-high-school-basketball-coach-arrested-on-allegations-of-sexual-assault-grooming-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/66803\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County high school basketball coach arrested on allegations of sexual assault, grooming minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/keyart-losangeles-1920x1080.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Los Angeles<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Orange County high school basketball coach was arrested on Wednesday after police learned of allegations that he had a sexual relationship with a minor in recent months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michael Joseph Duran, 44, is alleged to have been involved with the girl between 2024 and 2025, according to the Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thumbnail-25-08-13-duran-michael.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"thumbnail-25-08-13-duran-michael.jpg \" height=\"764\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Michael Duran.<\/p>\n<p>                Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Department<\/p>\n<p>Investigators were contacted by a mandated reporter who told them they believed an inappropriate relationship was happening between Duran and the victim. They contacted the victim and began their investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The victim alleged that Duran, while working as a high school assistant basketball coach at Dana Hills High School, groomed and had a sexual relationship with her,&#8221; OCSD&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocsheriff.gov\/news\/orange-county-sheriffs-investigators-seek-additional-victims-after-arrest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">news release<\/a> said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators also said that Duran was a coach with a basketball club in San Juan Capistrano known as SOCAL FINS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to Duran&#8217;s position as a basketball coach of minor females, &#8230; investigators believe there may be additional victims,&#8221; OCSD said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who knows more is asked to contact detectives at (714) 647-7419 or (714) 647-7000.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/dean-fioresi\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dean  Fioresi<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Dean Fioresi is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. He covers breaking news throughout Southern California. When he&#8217;s not writing about local events, he enjoys focusing on sports and entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Los Angeles Live An Orange County high school basketball coach was arrested on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-66803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}