{"id":57051,"date":"2025-11-22T22:23:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/57051\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T22:23:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:23:25","slug":"river-ridge-high-school-employee-arrested-after-alleged-romantic-relationship-with-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/57051\/","title":{"rendered":"River Ridge High School employee arrested after alleged romantic relationship with student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jordan-simon.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article   <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">NEW PORT RICHEY &#8211; A 24-year-old River Ridge High School employee is facing charges after Pasco County deputies say she engaged in a romantic relationship with a student.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Pasco Sheriff\u2019s Office said Jordan Simon was arrested on November 20 and charged with\u00a0Offenses Against a Student by an Authority Figure, a felony under Florida law.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to investigators, the Sheriff\u2019s Office received a tip that launched an investigation. Detectives determined Simon had been involved in a romantic relationship with a student at the school.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Sheriff\u2019s Office said the incident appears to be isolated, and there are no reports of additional victims at this time. Investigators said that the case remains active. There are currently no details about the student or the length and nature of the relationship.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Sources say Simon worked as a stage manager for River Ridge High School\u2019s Royal Knight Stage Company, though the school has not yet released statements about the arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this article comes from the Pasco County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Public Information Unit.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pasco\/new-port-richey\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Port Richey<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pasco\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pasco County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article NEW PORT RICHEY &#8211; A 24-year-old River Ridge High School employee is facing charges after Pasco County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,14931,115,4136,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-57051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-new-port-richey","tag-news","tag-pasco","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57051","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=57051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}