{"id":334982,"date":"2026-05-27T21:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/334982\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:48:08","slug":"south-bay-classroom-aide-arrested-for-inappropriately-messaging-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/334982\/","title":{"rendered":"South Bay classroom aide arrested for inappropriately messaging teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A San Jose classroom aide was arrested last week after allegedly sending sexual messages to teenage girls, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The San Jose Police Department said Wednesday that\u00a0Heriberto Plascencia, 31, allegedly shared \u201cinappropriate messaging and conversations\u201d with a juvenile student at a school in the 1500 block of Branham Lane, the location of Branham High School. Plascencia was employed as a classroom aide at the high school, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During their investigation, the San Jose Internet Crimes Against Children task force identified a second teenager who said she was also victimized by the aide.\u00a0Plascencia was arrested in San Jose on May 21 and booked into Santa Clara County Main Jail for sending harmful materials to a minor and for annoying or molesting a minor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to Suspect\u00a0Plascencia\u2019s position of trust, detectives believe there may be additional victims,\u201d police said. Anyone with information about the case was encouraged to contact police at 408-277-3214 or by email at 4581@sanjoseca.gov.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Jose classroom aide was arrested last week after allegedly sending sexual messages to teenage girls, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,723,15,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-334982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-education","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334982","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=334982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}