A Harris County Constable says investigators in his office arrested a North Texas superintendent of schools in a child sex sting on Thursday.
Harris County Precinct 1 Constable Alan Rosen posted a video message on his Facebook page shortly before 4 p.m. announcing the sting and identifying 47-year-old Itasca superintendent Michael Keith Stevens as one of seven men arrested earlier in the day.
Rosen said Stevens sent lewd photos to undercover investigators posing as teenage girls and asked for nude videos and images in return.
The constable said Stevens discussed taking a trip to Houston to meet up with who he thought was a 15-year-old girl for sex. The constable said some of Stevens’s photos appeared to have been taken in his Hill County office.
While talking about Stevens in the video, the constable showed several photographs of a man being taken into custody outside Itasca High School, which is adjacent to the district’s administration building.
“Ordinarily I would not show mugshots of these defendants, but we are trying to determine if any other children have been solicited by these individuals,” Rosen said.
According to a post on the Itasca ISD website, Stevens was named superintendent in 2022 and just completed his first full year leading the district. Before moving to Hill County, Stevens worked in several North Texas school districts as an administrator and teacher/coach including the Elektra ISD, Vernon ISD, Palacios ISD and Mesquite ISD.
“Stevens has been around children his entire work life. He has been a coach, a principal and assistant principal in various towns across North Texas,” Rosen said. “He is married with no children.”
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