SAN DIEGO - The Del Norte High School soccer coach arrested for sexting a student was released from jail late Friday night.
Authorities say more investigation is needed before they decide whether to bring charges against Robin Michael Alarcon.
The 35-year-old feshman girls' soccer assistant coach was arrested on suspicion of sending a sexually oriented text message to a girl enrolled at the 4S Ranch-area campus.
The Rancho Peñasquitos resident was taken into custody at the school on Wednesday afternoon, the day after he was believed to have transmitted the lewd communications, San Diego police Lt. Rick O'Hanlon said.
Alarcon was booked into county jail on suspicion of luring a minor for sexual purposes and sending "harmful matter" to a juvenile and has been held on $75,000 bail pending his arraignment that had been scheduled for Friday afternoon.
Following his arrest, Alarcon, a "walk-on" coach's aide at the school near Rancho Bernardo, was "permanently released from all duties" with Poway Unified School District, said district spokeswoman Sharon Raffer. Alarcon previously held similar posts at other PUSD schools, she said.
O'Hanlon declined to disclose the alleged victim's age and would not provide details on the nature of the alleged illegal "sexting," other than to say it was "very inappropriate."
"The victim was obviously taken aback by the messages," the sex-crimes lieutenant told San Diego 6 News.
Del Norte High School (Sky6)Alarcon's arrest was the second in just over a month involving a one-time physical education instructor with the northern San Diego County school district.
On Dec. 4, former Westview High volunteer wrestling coach Ryan Paul Carnell was jailed on suspicion of molesting an underage female student.
Carnell, 28, had pleaded no contest to lewd behavior three months earlier for sending a picture of his genitals to a 16-year-old female student.
