{"id":335337,"date":"2026-05-28T01:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/335337\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T01:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T01:55:17","slug":"san-jose-classroom-aide-arrested-on-suspicion-of-sending-harmful-material-to-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/335337\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose classroom aide arrested on suspicion of sending harmful material to student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2013 A classroom aide has been arrested on suspicion of sending harmful material to a female student at Branham High School in San Jose, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives opened an investigation on May 15 and discovered the suspect had shared \u201cinappropriate messaging and conversations\u201d with the girl, San Jose police spokesperson Stacie Shih said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, Shih added, was working as a classroom aide at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives identified the suspect as a 31-year-old San Jose man.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, a second student came forward and told detectives she had also been victimized by the suspect, Shih said.<\/p>\n<p>Shih said warrants were issued for the suspect, and on May 21, he was arrested on suspicion of sending harmful material to a minor and annoying or molesting a minor.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the suspect\u2019s position of trust, detectives believe there may be additional victims, Shih said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information related to the case can contact Detective Grant Widmer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/05\/27\/san-jose-classroom-aide-arrested-on-suspicion-of-sending-harmful-material-to-student\/mailto:4581@sanjoseca.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">4581@sanjoseca.gov<\/a> or 408-277-3214.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 A classroom aide has been arrested on suspicion of sending harmful material to a female&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[138514,237,184,48535,7,138515,723,138513,5659,100,236,88,90,89,198,200],"class_list":["post-335337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-annoying-or-molesting","tag-arrest","tag-bay-area","tag-branham-high-school","tag-california","tag-classroom-aide","tag-crime","tag-harmful-material","tag-minor","tag-news","tag-police","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335337","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=335337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}