{"id":201418,"date":"2026-04-18T00:23:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201418\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T00:23:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:23:48","slug":"fbi-hunts-for-nyc-volleyball-coach-believed-to-have-sexually-exploited-teens-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201418\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI hunts for NYC volleyball coach believed to have sexually exploited teens for years"},"content":{"rendered":"

The FBI is hunting for a Big Apple volleyball coach<\/a> they believe sexually exploited teens for potentially more than 15 years, according to the agency and sources.<\/p>\n

The accused sicko, identified by the FBI as Edgar Lazaro Castillo, is believed to have fled the country, agents told parents of teens who were part of the NYC Impact Volleyball Club during a phone call this week, sources said.<\/p>\n

The bureau on Monday put out a blast with Lazaro\u2019s name and face, identifying him as a former coach \u201cinvolved in the sexual exploitation of minors,\u201d and asking for victims to come forward.<\/p>\n

The FBI is hunting for NYC Impact Volleyball Club Edgar Lazaro Castillo, 36, who allegedly sexually exploited teens for over 15 years. Jeffrey Greenberg\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FBI believes he primarily targeted minors who participated in volleyball leagues between the timeframe of 2010 and March 2026 in multiple states, primarily New York City,\u201d the message said.<\/p>\n

The FBI\u2019s New York field office declined comment further on Castillo, including on whether he had been charged with any crimes. <\/p>\n

The US attorney\u2019s office in Brooklyn is investigating him along with the FBI, The New York Times reported Friday<\/a>, adding that he goes by Edgar Lazaro and was originally from Mexico, but grew up in The Bronx.<\/p>\n

Castillo, 36, reportedly coached at Impact for about 10 years. <\/p>\n

A player there recently filed a complaint alleging that he was assaulted by Castillo during a tournament in Boston in March \u2014 sparking the federal investigation, according to sources and the Times.<\/p>\n

The accused sicko, identified by the FBI as Edgar Lazaro Castillo, is believed to have fled the country, agents told parents of teens who were part of the NYC Impact Volleyball Club during a phone call this week, sources said. Monkey Business \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

Sources also said Castillo was fired from the Legacy Volleyball Club in 2014 after claims surfaced that he was acting inappropriately with kids on the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was texting them and communicating with them on social media, which is a no-no,\u201d said a fellow coach, who did not want to be named.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen this thing broke on the FBI, parents, coaches, refs and kids have been blowing up social media and the phone lines talking about him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neither Impact nor Legacy responded to The Post\u2019s requests for comment. The Garden Empire Volleyball Association, or GEVA, which oversees local volleyball clubs, also did nor respond.<\/p>\n

Castillo couldn\u2019t be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

AP<\/p>\n

Sources said he also had stints coaching at John Jay College for Criminal Justice and at the private all-boys Catholic school Xavier, both in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

The question form<\/a> that victims or parents of victims can fill out on the bureau\u2019s website includes asking if they had contact with Castillo through social media apps Snapchat or Instagram, and if they traded sexual images or videos with him. <\/p>\n

It also asks whether they ever received a payment from Castillo, and if so, through what platform.<\/p>\n

During the Tuesday phone call, the FBI offered counseling to any Impact players who needed it while giving parents the names of agents on the case to contact, sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FBI is hunting for a Big Apple volleyball coach they believe sexually exploited teens for potentially more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5970,57,9,24,56,63,65,64,58,1339],"class_list":{"0":"post-201418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-fbi","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-volleyball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}