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Published on June 3, 2026 at 1:15 pm
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A substitute teacher from Orange Park was arrested Tuesday on charges of possessing child sexual abuse material.
Tyrone Julius Ferguson, 50, was charged with four counts of possessing or intentionally viewing child sexual abuse material and two counts of possession of animal sexual abuse material. He remains behind bars on $450,000 bail, records show.
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SWAT and Special Operations deputies from the Clay Couny Sheriff’s Office served a search warrant on Ferguson in his Wells Road apartment. During the investigation, investigators learned that Ferguson had worked as a substitute teacher for elementary and middle school-aged children and was also a youth basketball coach, the Sheriff’s Office says.
The Sheriff’s Office did not say what schools he taught in or where he coached.
Anybody with information in this investigation is asked to contact Detective Eva Solis at esolis@claysheriff.com, or at (904) 264-6512.
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Ferguson was the second person arrested in recent days who worked in a school — and at least the third in recent months.
A Twin Lakes Academy Middle School guard was arrested Saturday on a charge of lewd or lascivious conduct involving a student, according to a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office report.
Jon Kee Jr., 27, gave free drinks and snacks to a student at a Southside Jacksonville convenience store where he worked, the report says. Kee also hugged the student, then messaged the child on Instagram and sent what appear to be inappropriate text messages, the report says.
Kee remains jailed on a half-million dollar bail. He had worked at Twin Lakes since early 2022, starting as an office assistant before moving over to a guard position in July 2024, Duval County school officials said.
In April, Johnny Robinson III of Orange Park, a math teacher at Temple Christian Academy in West Jacksonville, was arrested and charged with transmitting obscene material to a minor, possession of child pornography and use of a computer to transmit the material, according to his court files.
Robinson, 34, remains jailed on $1.4 million bail in the Clay County Jail, awaiting trial, records show.
