Northmont Coach Arrested

A Northmont High School assistant football coach and head track coach was arrested in Clinton County early Tuesday, June 23, after he was discovered in a parked car with a 17-year-old Englewood girl, according to a report in the Wilmington News Journal.

Deputies said Loren P. Meadows, 35, of Union, was charged with resisting arrest and obstructing official business. Both are misdeamnor charges. They said they had to use a tazor to subdue Meadows.

Meadows is the wide receiver's coach and the strength and conditioning coordinator for the Thunderbolts football program, as well as Northmont’s head boys and girls varsity track and field coach.

Meadows was in Clinton County because he is a volunteer at a summer camp for underpriviledged children. Officials said the teen was one of his former students.

According to the News Journal, the Clinton County Sheriff’s Office received a report at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday of a vehicle parked in the driveway of an abandoned house on Clarksville Road. Deputies found Meadows and a teenage girl inside the vehicle. Both of them were partially undressed.

“Initially, when asked his age, he tried to pass himself off as being 17 as well,” Lt. Pete Smith of the sheriff’s office told the newspaper. “With the help of the on-board computers that we have now, we were able to pull up his age and Social Security number and we found he was 35 years old.”

Meadows was taken to the Clinton County Jail and later released on bond.

Northmont School officials said Meadows was placed on paid administrative pending the outcome of a school district investigation.