Police in Vallejo arrested a school safety supervisor suspected of soliciting sex acts from a high school student, the department said Wednesday.
Just after 3 p.m. on Tuesday, officers went to Vallejo High School on Nebraska Street after receiving a report that a staff member, Reuben Carter Freeman, 36, was allegedly soliciting sexual acts from a student.
Freeman allegedly fled the campus after learning police had been notified, police said. Officers located Freeman running nearby and took him into custody.
According to investigators, Freeman is alleged to have "forcefully" taken a student's phone, saying that he would not return it unless she complied with his demands. Freeman is accused of soliciting sex acts from the girl, holding her against her will and preventing her from leaving the classroom while he had possession of her phone.
"Freeman eventually returned the phone and allowed her to leave only after she acquiesced to some of his demands," police allege.
Freeman was arrested and booked into the Solano County Jail on suspicion of soliciting lewd acts in public, false imprisonment, and robbery. He is being held on $70,000 bail and, as of Wednesday evening, he was still in custody.
