Ex-South Plantation High coach accused of child solicitation booked into Broward jail

The former head football coach at South Plantation High School arrested amid allegations of improper conduct with a child has been extradited to Broward, jail records showed.

Colby Erskin was booked into Broward’s main jail on Tuesday to face charges of solicitation of a child and transmission of material harmful to minors, records showed.

Erskin, 39, was arrested last week by the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office on a Broward County warrant.

Further details of the allegations weren’t immediately available.

Erskin appeared before a Broward judge on Wednesday morning at a hearing where a prosecutor asked for a $50,000 bond.

But the judge said the amount was too low and set a $500,000 bond, and ordered Erskin to have no contact with the alleged victim or any minors.

Broward County Public Schools officials said Erskin hasn’t worked for them since August of 2024. He was a substitute teacher at various locations from January 2014 to June 2016 and from January 2022 to August 2022.

He was a mathematics teacher at South Plantation High from August 2022 until he left in 2024.

Records showed Erskin was most recently the head football coach at Mount Dora High School in Lake County.

“Mr. Erskin is no longer employed with Lake County Schools. He was dismissed today, while still in his probationary period with the district, after we learned of his arrest,” Lake County Schools officials said in a statement to WESH on Friday.