New details from Alvarado Police in the arrest of former Mansfield Legacy High School teacher and coach Jared Young reveal the educator drove from his Burleson home to the Alvarado ISD administration building and had sex with a 16-year-old Alvarado female student in his car.

“There’s no telling how many more students are going to come forward,” Lt. Casey Lopez, with the Alvarado Police Department, said.

“The face of a predator is the face of anybody. You never know who they are. You never really know what’s going on in someone’s head or behind closed doors,” Lopez said.

Alvarado Police say Young sent or exchanged nude and sexually explicit photographs through social media and texts with at least two Alvarado ISD students and admitted to the sexual misconduct to investigators.

Young was a teacher and coach at Alvarado ISD during the 2023-2024 school year. When his contract was not renewed, he became a science teacher and freshman football and basketball coach at Legacy High School in Mansfield, where he had previously worked as a special education teacher’s aide.

In a letter to parents, the school’s principal said, “The district immediately placed Mr. Young on leave pending the outcome of the investigation. Upon obtaining additional information, the district notified Mr. Young of its intent to terminate his employment.”

“It is very important for the school officials to do their due diligence when it comes to things like this as opposed to trying to wait or sweep it under the rug,” Lopez said.

At this point, investigators do not believe any Mansfield ISD students are victims. The school district is now reaching out to the families of students Young had contact with and will be searching through his devices.

“We’re doing data dumps on phones, digital devices, so we’re going to learn more in the next few months,” Lopez said.

The Mansfield School District says it followed strict hiring protocols for Young, including a criminal background check, employment history verification and professional references, none of which revealed any concerns.

“They check out, they look great and that’s the scary part, is you never know. You never know,” Lopez said.

Young does not have an attorney listed on his case. He remains behind bars in the Johnson County Jail on a $250,000 bond.