{"id":308379,"date":"2026-05-10T01:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/308379\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T01:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T01:38:19","slug":"hesperia-high-school-wrestling-coach-arrested-in-child-sex-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/308379\/","title":{"rendered":"Hesperia High School wrestling coach arrested in child sex investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sheriff\u2019s deputies in San Bernardino County arrested a Hesperia wrestling coach Tuesday as part of a child sex investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Gene Richard Griffith III, 36, a wrestling coach at Hesperia High School and resident of the city, faces a charge of lewd and lascivious acts with a child, the San Bernardino County Sheriff\u2019s Department said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Hesperia High School officials did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Griffith was booked into the High Desert Detention Center in San Bernardino on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>A representative for the San Bernardino County Sheriff did not immediately return a request for further information about the alleged incident or possible bail terms. <\/p>\n<p>Detectives from the Sheriff\u2019s Department\u2019s    Crimes Against Children unit said in a statement they believe there might be additional victims, and ask anyone with information to contact Detective Victoria Twardowski at 909-890-4904.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheriff\u2019s deputies in San Bernardino County arrested a Hesperia wrestling coach Tuesday as part of a child sex&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[129592,129596,730,6246,6873,40711,129593,129597,4456,48,52,51,47,50,49,129595,5518,2637,129594,3025,316],"class_list":["post-308379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-child-sex-investigation","tag-comment-saturday","tag-crimes","tag-department","tag-detective","tag-further-information","tag-hesperia-wrestling-coach-tuesday","tag-high-desert-detention-center","tag-incident","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-possible-bail-term","tag-san-bernardino-county","tag-sheriff","tag-specialized-investigations-division","tag-statement","tag-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}