covering pascoe county, zephyrhills high school let their football coach go and now the former reggie roberts is now under agency. eric wechsler shows us what he is accused of doing and why it is just the latest issue at the school. >> zephyrhills police sergeant reggie roberts two weeks ago, when he talked about losing his head coach position. >> school officials say a lack of discipline led to the change putting accusations that they number of players were involved in sexual assault. police never filed charges in that case and the school discipline the students. now to school workers have given statement saying that and even his gun unattended inside the school office. the superintendent kurt browning asked for zephyrhills police to investigate and officials to find out if robert used his position to intimidate school officials and secretly record meetings. dpd can't comment right now because it's an open investigation. >> there is mutual distrust going on right now between the high school and the police permit and the city. if it can't, the pascoe sheriff's office might be brought into the

. >> reggie robert says he's been living his dreams for r the last six years. >> he's coaching a winning football team. >> i felt like i woke up from my dream and obviously, i was to an end. i was very disappointed. >> after turning the school's losing program around, robert was let go. it is not about his record. >> we had issues with some of the football players getting into trouble because of the lack supervision from their head coach. >> officials say need they needed a full-time coach on campus. >> something that robert cannot do and also work at the police department. >> report disagrees. >> i have spent numerous lunch periods at lunch with the kids. i walked around campus and i met coachesat the camp. >> some of police investigated- -officials say that's when they had to make a top decision chooseing good of the school over the popular football coach >> there is no question that he devoted a lot of times to the the school day. ? pasco county, i am cameron pole polar, abc action news. >>> this ex executive is laughing about this. >>> plus, high-tech fees targeting you. straightahea

activities going on at the high school and if they want to file a charge, a complaint against reggie roberts we will follow >> roberts told 10 news, the totally false. we do know the story is complicated. so to help you follow it, we posted our original story outlining the ous ting. >> officers responded to a call of suspicious active. bay and anthony cook cut a hole through a fence and took off. the department of juvenile administrative leave. >>> crime alert out of st. pete that many of you may find unbelievable. a piece of artist is stolen from the chalua connection on glass piece was swiped over the weekend. it was noticed missing this morning, worth $25,000. >>> the anthem of the seas got caught in a storm yesterday. you can see from the video huge waves and all posted on social media. passengers were supposed to stay in the cabins and to ride the storm out. pictures show the ceiling caved in and we spoke to one passenger who was afraid that the ship was going to turn over. >> we held hands and we thought we were done. we thought it was over. >>> the ship was supposed to turned around t

reporter: one of the first steps principal angie stone took was to dismiss popular football coach reggie roberts. roberts is a full-time zephyrhills police officer. >> any time they have been on campus i have been there. >> reporter: the district says the coach was not there between 1:55 and 4:30 when school ends and practice begins so the players were sent to study hall. >> the whole study hall was for those kids to be monitored. these are football players. this is a female teacher. they are intimidating. >> reporter: players would leave study hall early frequently. during that time period five assaulting a female student. another officer told the principal to wait to take action against the boys. >> he was asked by the detectives to hold off on one or two boys that admitted they had a sexual encounter with a girl willingly. >> reporter: the girl involved recanted her story about the alleged sexual assault and says the sex was consensual. she was disciplined. another incident happened around the same time. >> that involved two minors. >> for sex on campus? >> yes. >> reporter: both those studen

. >>> reggie roberts says he has been living his dream for the community as a zephyr hills police officer and coaching at his alma mater. >> it is like i woke up from my dream and i was disappointed in way it came coto an end. >> after turning the losing program around, roberts was let go. the district says it is not abhis record. >> we've had some issues with some of the football players getting into trouble because of the lack of supervision from their head coach. >> officials say they need a full-time coach on campus, something they say roberts can't do and also work at the police department. roberts disagrees. >> i have spent numerous lunch periods at lunch with the kids. i have walked around campus. i have met college coaches at the campus. >> we are learning an incident last september may have been the final straw. >> a girl made accusations that some of the players had sexually assaulted her. >> police investigated but the state attorney dropped the case in december. to make a tough decision choosing the good of the school over the popular football coach. >> there's no question tha

officials say coach reggie roberts who splits his time as a coach and a police officer doesn't spend enough time on campus. >> there's no question he devoted a lot of time to the team, but the issues were during school day. >> now the school is search for a full-time on campus coach to take offer. he's extremely disappointed by the decision, but he will continue to help and mentor young people anyway he can. >>> today we learn what happened inside an exam room when this doctor is accused of taking thing a little too far. in a witness affidavit a female into a room alone at the florida spine institute in clearwater and sexually assaulted her. that woman tells clearwater police a newer surgeon asked her to lie on her system 5:00 and did victim claims a back exam turned into sexual battery. the woman says when he try today get up and scream, the there forcely kissed -- forcefully kissed her. he admitted to initiating the sexual contact and adding that what he did was quote not for medical purposes the florida spine institute says he no longer works there. they tell us they're cooperate

reggie admits that he killed robert silk, but we know that. still, he is essentially blaming robert silk for, in a sense, causing his own death. >> on march 10th, 1995, six months after robert silk's disappearance, detective steven toth and robert vancura are summoned to a patch of woods in rockland county. >> we were called by some kids playing across the street, found a body in the water here where this culvert meets. >> it was partially decomposed, part had been preserved and part was in a severe state of almost skeletal remains. we would learn the next day at autopsy that robert silk had been violently bludgeoned to death. >> the crime scene is almost 50 miles north of silk's house, but six miles from where mcfadden lived at the time of the murder. >> how were you feeling when this was happening? were you angry with him? >> angry? i wouldn't say -- i wouldn't say the word angry. i think i didn't see him as a human being. he was just a jewish person. he wasn't a human being to me. they become a nonperson. and this is what has happened over

reggie. >> coming up, robin roberts report. iowa, that is next. >>> and we'll have another live update in 30 minutes and always on our news app at abc 7 news. >>> we welcome you back to "good morning america." and this is a live shot of a group called nurses for bernie and they are ready to rock the vote for bernie sanders here in iowa. and we also have republican candidate ben carson's headquarters this morning. yep, they're already in full swing in urbandale. and those are voters at the machine shed diner. they're excited for jon karl and they're excited for tonight's caucus. >> lot of motivation there and all across the state right now. we're covering every angle of this campaign. this morning, here from the statehouse. a lot of other news headlines this morning. we'll get to that. >>> but first, robin, you had a chance to sit down with bernie and jane sanders. >> yes, he's making headlines overnight, he said he's not stopping here in iowa, he's going all the way to the convention. early on in the campaign, not many expected

reggie. >> coming up, days to the super bowl, roger goodell one-on-one with robin roberts, in a gma exclusiveate in 30 minutes and always on our news app and abc7news.com. and join me, mike, sue and natasha on monday morning from >>> that is levi's stadium, super bowl sunday coming up, everybody getting ready to face off and robin is in san francisco right now. she spoke exclusively to nfl commissioner roger goodell. hey there, robin. >> a lot to talk about from safety to the nfl's first women's summit. we'll discuss what that is all about and also, well, that little game, the super bowl. we'll maybe get his thoughts on the matchup and can i get him to dab? will i get the commissioner to dab? >> there's a tease. we'll find out in just a few minutes. >> my bet is on robin. >>> also right now just one day to the republican debate right here on abc. the stage is set as the candidates get ready to face off one last time before the first primary and then a big headline about martin shkreli, the so-called bad boy of big drug companies, congress grilled him in a tense hearing thursday where he refus

reggie tomorrow morning dark and early at 4:30 to 7:00 a.m. ♪t 4:30 to 7:00 a.m. >>> jessica chastain looks like julia roberts' ghost.with 150 extra pounds on him. oh, man. >> eddie redmayne looks like denis leary wearing the skin of justin bieber. >> there it is. little sneak peek of jimmy kimmel. makes you think in they do. >> you can see it all tonight on "jimmy kimmel live." >> doing that takes the steam sting out of it. >> if you can laugh about it, it takes the power out of it counting down to oscar sunday. and our "gma" after show on monday morning. rachel smith is actually getting the party started at samsung's 837 building with chef josh capon and have tips to throw an amazing oscar party for 100 bucks or less. >> wow. great to see josh out there with rachel. >>> we are counting down. if we hadn't mentioned it before to oscar sunday. hold on, breaking news, the oscars are this sunday. so, this is a great "gma" tradition as you may know, we all take turns in front of the green screen to star if you will in oscar nominated flips. films. we have a special thursday throw of back edition with some of sam's best.