An Osceola County school monitor was arrested after getting into a “physical altercation” with a 14-year-old boy on Tuesday, according to the sheriff’s office.
In a release, deputies said the incident happened at Poinciana High School after the monitor — identified as John Carrasquillo, 62 — got into a dispute with the teen over the teen’s phone.
Despite the fight, though, there were no reported injuries to the student, deputies noted.
“After talking to witnesses and reviewing surveillance video, the OCSO detective made the arrest of (Carrasquillo),” the release reads.
Carrasquillo now faces a charge of child abuse without great bodily harm, and he is held with no bond pending arraignment, jail records show.
After our initial story about Carrasquillo aired Wednesday, a News 6 viewer sent us a tip claiming that Carrasquillo was once a corrections officer in Orange County Jail.
The tip prompted News 6 to pose questions to several agencies in Orange and Osceola Counties.
A human resources analyst with Orange County Thursday confirmed that a man by the name of John Carrasquillo had once worked as a corrections officer in the county, but was no longer employed there.
Later in the afternoon Thursday, a spokesperson with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office told News 6’s Mike Valente that the agency in 2010 had investigated a corrections officer by the name of John Carrasquillo—a John Carrasquillo who shared the same birthday as the Poinciana High School campus monitor arrested this week for child abuse.
It’s not clear what the 2010 investigation focused on, but the Sheriff’s Office did not make an arrest in the probe, according to the spokesperson, who said the victim in the case did not wish to seek prosecution.
The Osceola County School District told Valente Thursday that a review of Carrasquillo confirmed that he was “hired and cleared through all required procedures.” She said she could not confirm whether this was the same Carrasquillo who had been the subject of an investigation while employed by Orange County Corrections.
“The Superintendent intends to recommend the employee’s termination at a regularly scheduled School Board meeting, pursuant to applicable state law and subject to the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement,” the district spokesperson said.