Fort Campbell boys' basketball coach John Cunningham was arrested Monday in Clarksville, Tennessee on a stalking charge stemming from an alleged incident involving a teacher at Fort Campbell High School.
Cunningham, 36, of Cadiz, was charged with misdemeanor stalking following his arrest Monday by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office. He was booked into the Montgomery County Jail on a $1,000 bond and released Tuesday, according to the department's web site.
According to a Clarksville Police Department report filed on Feb. 25, the female victim stated Cunningham was an ex-boyfriend and refused to stop coming to her Clarksville house in recent weeks. The report also stated Cunningham continued to contact her at the high school where they both teach, despite being told by school staff to stop.
The victim told police she did not feel like the contact would stop and was in fear of her safety and the safety of her son. The warrant for stalking was secured, according to the report, and Cunningham was arrested at 4:31 pm Monday.
According to Tennessee law, stalking is described as a willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of another individual that would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested, and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested.
Cunningham's status as a teacher and coach at Fort Campbell was not known Tuesday afternoon. No one answered the school phone after normal school hours.
Cunningham is in his first year at Fort Campbell, guiding both the boys' soccer team and boys' basketball team. He was a former assistant basketball coach at Trigg County.
i think that his good teaching and coaching should be put into cunsideration fort campbell needs a good caoch like him so dont keep him in jail to long please im sure im speeking on be have of the soccer and basketball teams
Posted by: kody wolfe | March 04, 2011 at 11:35 AM