A former youth sports coach from Dixon was jailed in lieu of $1 million bail Thursday on suspicion of having an intimate relationship with — and later threatening — an underage girl, Davis police announced Friday.
Lt. Glenn Glasgow said 37-year-old Troy Anthony Hensley engaged in the relationship with the girl, a 17-year-old Dixon resident, over a 3 1/2-month period in 2012 at multiple locations in Davis. Glasgow declined to specify the locations, citing an ongoing investigation into possible additional victims.
During the probe, “it was also determined that Hensley had made threats to harm the victim and others if she reported their relationship to the police,” Glasgow said.
Davis police launched the investigation on May 22 after being notified about the relationship by the Dixon Police Department, Glasgow said. Hensley was arrested shortly before 2 p.m. Thursday during a vehicle stop on southbound Highway 113 near Hutchinson Drive in Davis.
According to Glasgow, the vehicle stop “was part of the surveillance we were doing” and involved multiple unmarked vehicles as well as at least one officer with a rifle drawn.
Hensley was lodged at the Yolo County Jail on suspicion of engaging in an illegal sexual relationship with a juvenile, making criminal threats, and intimidating a witness. He is scheduled to be arraigned at 1:30 p.m. Monday in Yolo Superior Court.
Brian Dolan, superintendent of the Dixon Unified School District, said Hensley was employed as a “walk-on,” or temporary, coach with the district for the past three years, coaching football and boys’ basketball at Dixon High School during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years, and boys’ basketball this past year at C.A. Jacobs Intermediate School.
Credentialed staff are given first opportunity at coaching positions in the Dixon school district, so “there was a good chance he would not have been back if this had not happened,” Dolan said. He called the criminal case “a very sad circumstance for the young lady involved.”
Meanwhile, Davis police are investigating whether Hensley may have had inappropriate contact with young girls in the Davis and Dixon areas. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Davis Police Department at 530-747-5400.
— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise.net or 530-747-8048. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene
