Grape Creek High assistant football coach arrested

Update: This case was dismissed Oct. 23, 2018.

SAN ANGELO — An assistant football coach at Grape Creek High School has been arrested on suspicion of burglary and assault of his ex-girlfriend.

Anthony Carson, 27, was booked into the Tom Green County Jail at 1:16 a.m. Monday on a charge of burglary of a habitation to commit assault, a second-degree felony punishable by two to 20 years in prison.

Carson was released shortly before noon Tuesday on a $27,500 bond.

Superintendent Angie Smetana said the Grape Creek Independent School District was informed of Carson's arrest Monday.

"Mr. Carson has been put on administrative leave with pay pending an ongoing investigation with local law enforcement," Smetana said.

The charges stem from a case in which police said a man broke into an ex-girlfriend's residence on Sunday evening and assaulted her.

The San Angelo Police Department was called to a home in the first block of East 42nd Street for a report of a domestic disturbance, according to the arrest warrant affidavit.

The woman told officers the man forced his way through the door when she refused to let him inside her home, according to the affidavit.

She said the man came into "her bedroom and grabbed her by the throat, then started to strike her in the face," the affidavit stated.

The woman alleges the man struck her multiple times and kept following her as she tried to escape, according the affidavit.

Police indicated the front door was damaged.

This article originally appeared on San Angelo Standard-Times: Grape Creek High assistant coach arrested