{"id":473796,"date":"2026-09-24T03:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T03:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473796\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T03:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T03:44:09","slug":"san-jose-school-official-charged-with-attempted-sex-trafficking-enticement-of-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/473796\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose school official charged with attempted sex trafficking, enticement of minor"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE \u2014 A former San Jose middle school assistant principal arrested earlier this year in a Super Bowl week undercover sting<\/a> is now facing charges of attempted sex trafficking of a child and attempted coercion and enticement of a child, federal authorities said.<\/p>\n

Ruben Guzman, 32, of San Jose, was arraigned on the charges Wednesday in San Jose.<\/p>\n

An indictment alleges that Guzman attempted to engage in a commercial sex act with a person he believed was under the age of 14 and that he attempted to engage in sexual activities with a person he believed was under the age of 18, according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Guzman was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service, authorities said.<\/p>\n

If convicted, Guzman faces a maximum sentence of life in federal prison for both counts. Attempted sex trafficking of a child carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years and attempted coercion and enticement of a minor carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years. He could also be ordered to pay a $250,000 fine.<\/p>\n

Guzman worked as an assistant principal and math teacher at Sunrise Middle School.<\/p>\n

In a statement Wednesday, the school\u2019s director, Teresa Robinson, said Guzman was separated from the school after his arrest on Feb. 3.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to emphasize that over the past seven months we have not become aware of any allegations involving Sunrise students or any misconduct of this nature occurring at our school,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cThe safety and well-being of our students is always our highest priority, and when we learned of the earlier allegations, we acted immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a news release announcing Guzman\u2019s arrest, the San Jose Police Department said he communicated with an officer posing as a teen boy and \u201cacknowledged the child was underage and told the minor that he wanted to engage in sexual acts, further enticing the minor by offering money in exchange.\u201d Guzman was arrested later that day.<\/p>\n

The arrest was part of a broader undercover operation conducted by SJPD\u2019s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other federal and local agencies during Super Bowl week.<\/p>\n

Along with Guzman, 11 other men were arrested in the sweep. They ranged in age from 24 to 72.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014 A former San Jose middle school assistant principal arrested earlier this year in a Super…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,1312,723,108512,11193,100,88,90,89,198,26468,200,27933],"class_list":["post-473796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-enticement","tag-indictment","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-sex-trafficking","tag-south-bay","tag-u-s-attorneys-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473796","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=473796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}