{"id":143726,"date":"2026-02-04T19:19:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143726\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:19:29","slug":"pinellas-park-teacher-coach-accused-of-lewd-or-lascivious-conduct-with-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143726\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinellas Park teacher, coach accused of lewd or lascivious conduct with students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/caskey-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Courtesy: Pinellas Park Police Department. <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">PINELLAS PARK, Fla. &#8211; A teacher at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/pinellas-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pinellas Park<\/a> Plato Academy is behind bars accused of building inappropriate relationships with female students.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Detectives with the Pinellas Park Police Department say that Brett Caskey, 41, bought clothes and food for the students.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Investigators say that Caskey was also a coach, and he took advantage of these minors.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">&#8220;The investigation revealed that Brett Caskey used his position as a coach to gain the students&#8217; trust and create opportunities for continued contact,&#8221; A statement from police read.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/pinellas-park-business-owner-says-he-had-check-stolen-from-mail-caught-before-he-lost-money\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pinellas Park business owner says he had check stolen from mail, caught it before he lost money<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Caskey has been charged with lewd or lascivious conduct.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">If anyone has information about inappropriate contact or behavior involving the Caskey, they are being asked to contact the Pinellas Park Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Pinellas Park Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pinellas County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Pinellas Park Police Department. PINELLAS PARK, Fla. &#8211; A teacher at Pinellas Park Plato Academy is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[630,47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-143726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pinellas","12":"tag-st-pete","13":"tag-st-pete-headlines","14":"tag-st-pete-news","15":"tag-st-petersburg","16":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","17":"tag-st-petersburg-news","18":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}