{"id":396089,"date":"2026-09-10T18:40:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396089\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T18:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:40:37","slug":"miami-basketball-coach-gets-prison-under-deal-in-lewd-incidents-involving-kids-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396089\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami basketball coach gets prison under deal in lewd incidents involving kids \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former volunteer basketball coach for a community center in Miami is heading to prison after pleading guilty Thursday to several charges including molesting a child and exposing himself to a minor.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Williams, 28, had three open cases dating back to 2021 involving children, including one where police said he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/miami-basketball-coach-accused-of-sending-inappropriate-texts-to-10-year-old-boy\/3534758\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/miami-basketball-coach-accused-of-sending-inappropriate-texts-to-10-year-old-boy\/3534758\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">inappropriately texted a 10-year-old boy<\/a> and another where he exposed himself in front of a minor.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Williams was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to inappropriately touching a 6-year-old boy.<\/p>\n<p>But last year, he was re-arrested while on probation when he picked up the two new cases.<\/p>\n<p>Under the accepted plea deal, Williams was sentenced to 77 months in state prison, a little over six years, followed by 10 years of probation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former volunteer basketball coach for a community center in Miami is heading to prison after pleading guilty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226,373],"class_list":["post-396089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396089","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=396089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}