{"id":45213,"date":"2021-08-13T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/grumke-hired-to-coach-bayfield-football-before-resigning-arrested\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:23:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:23:50","slug":"grumke-hired-to-coach-bayfield-football-before-resigning-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/grumke-hired-to-coach-bayfield-football-before-resigning-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Grumke, hired to coach Bayfield football before resigning, arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=13d74d49-80f4-528b-a71e-26ead1b8f768&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Grumke\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Grumke<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Ethan Grumke almost taught math and coached the Bayfield High School football team.<\/p>\n<p>He was hired in February, but resigned in June before ever making it to Bayfield.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, he was taken into custody in Durango. He was being held Friday night at the La Plata County Jail without bail.<\/p>\n<p>Grumke, 27, a former teacher, track coach and assistant football coach at Oak Grove High School in Missouri, has been charged with several felonies for stalking and sending sex videos to students, including a female juvenile, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker announced Friday in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The charges include two counts of stalking, two counts of furnishing pornographic material or attempt to furnish to a minor, and attempt to commit the offense of sexual contact with a student.<\/p>\n<p>According to court records, Oak Grove police were alerted by the Missouri Children\u2019s Division that Grumke had sent videos to students.<\/p>\n<p>Oak Grove police also learned from school officials of an investigation that followed an anonymous report that Grumke had furnished pornographic videos to female students.<\/p>\n<p>Grumke admitted to school officials that he sent videos to students, including a juvenile, according to charging documents. Oak Grove Police\u2019s investigation substantiated these allegations with interviews of the students and their family members, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-db9881cd453860a32fe0611e41c8a1d5\"><a href=\"mailto:colivas@durangoherald.com\">colivas@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri school teacher and coach charged with stalking, sending sex videos to students<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1871,168,28,1024,1231],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-45213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bayfield-high-school","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-la-plata-county-jail","tag-pine-river-times"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86399,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45213\/revisions\/86399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45213"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=45213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}