KMAN received word shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday of the arrest of Zac Burton, owner of Fieldhouse Development in Manhattan and a former K-State football player. Burton also was an assistant boys’ basketball coach at Riley County’s USD 378.
The 38-year-old was taken into custody at about that time and faces charges involving unlawful sexual relations, allegedly involving a female student at Riley County’s USD 378. Riley County Police Public Information Officer Matthew Droge told KMAN Tuesday evening the specific charges were not yet available but would be released Wednesday morning. Bond is $50,000.
As KMAN reported May 25, USD 378 Interim Superintendent Nancy Meyer confirmed her district was working with the Riley County Police as they investigated an employee. KMAN also shared a photo (above) of a CSI van on Bluemont Avenue that same night near the Fieldhouse Development office on Bluemont Avenue. Droge at that time told KMAN a search warrant was conducted in relation to an investigation outside of Manhattan in Riley County.
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