Manatee County Sheriff’s Office detectives from the Crimes Against Children unit have arrested an assistant football coach at Bayshore High School for soliciting sexual contact with a student.
On Monday, November 17, 2025, a parent of a 16-year-old student reported to deputies that Lagarius Spikes, 42, made sexually explicit comments to the juvenile victim and solicited sex while in his office and later sent additional explicit text messages.
After receiving these allegations, detectives responded and gathered further information from the victim and her parent about the sexually explicit conversations and phone messages that occurred over the past week. Following a review of the evidence, which included an audio-recorded conversation, probable cause was established to charge Spikes with Soliciting Sexual Battery by an authority figure.
Spikes was located at his residence in Palmetto and arrested. He was booked at the Manatee County Jail.
The Manatee County School District, the Florida Department of Children and Families, and the Florida Abuse Hotline were notified of this incident. There are no prior investigations involving Spikes with similar allegations. The investigation is ongoing.
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