An assistant principal was arrested during a sweeping child predator sting in San Jose after he allegedly arranged to pay someone he believed was a 13-year-old boy for sex.
Ruben Guzman, a 31-year-old assistant principal at Sunrise Middle School, and 10 other men in the San Jose-area were arrested in an exhaustive child sex sting mere days before Super Bowl LX.
Guzman allegedly reached out to someone he believed was a 13-year-old boy on Feb. 3 and claimed he was willing to pay the purported minor for sex, according to a press release from the San Jose Police Department.
Not long after, Guzman pulled up to an agreed upon site where he was supposed to pick up the 13-year-old — only to find a squad of plainclothes police officers waiting for him.
Guzman started working at Sunrise Middle School in 2020, but was let go in the wake of his arrest, the school’s founding director Teresa Robinson confirmed in an email to The Post.
He worked as a math teacher for 5th and 8th grade classes in tandem with his assistant principal duties for the last three years, according to Robinson.
In 2024, he was one of 10 local educators decorated with the coveted San Francisco 49ers’ “Follow Your Bliss” award.
The award, which comes with a $2,000 stipend for classroom materials, is given to “educators who lead our future generation with purpose, passion, dedication, and love despite uncertainties and any hurdles they may face,” according to its website. --->READ MORE HERE
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A San Jose assistant principal — a 2024 finalist for California Teacher of the Year — has been arrested after allegedly attempting to pay an undercover officer, whom he thought was a 13-year-old boy, for sex.
Ruben Guzman, 31, a math teacher and assistant principal at the Sunrise Middle School for the past six years, was arrested as part of a large-scale, online chat operation by the San Jose police during Super Bowl week.
Ironically, Guzman not only was a finalist for teacher of the year, but he was also recognized by the San Francisco 49ers football team for his work in education, the Daily Mail reported.
Details of the February 3 arrest were released this week by authorities, who said it was San Jose Police Department’s (SJPD) Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) unit and the FBI that identified Guzman as a “potential suspect.”
According to a statement by the SJPD:
On the evening of February 3, 2026, Suspect Guzman started to communicate with who he believed was a 13-year-old juvenile male. The suspect acknowledged the child was underage and told the minor that he wanted to engage in sexual acts, further enticing the minor by offering money in exchange. Suspect Guzman arranged to pick up the child in the city of San José but when he arrived, he was apprehended by Officers with the SJPD Covert Response Unit who immediately took him into custody.
A search of his person and vehicle revealed items consistent with the planned encounter. During the subsequent investigation, Investigators learned that the suspect was actively employed as an Assistant Principal at Sunrise Middle School located in the city of San José. The school administration was notified and is fully cooperating with the investigation.
Staff at the school were in shock over the arrest. --->READ MORE HERE
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