Overview
- Prosecutors charged Paul Ryan Coleman, 46, of Yucaipa, with three felonies including attempted child molestation and arranging to meet a minor for sex.
- Investigators say he exchanged hundreds of explicit messages with an undercover officer posing as a 13-year-old during a three-month operation.
- The Riverside County Child Exploitation Team arrested him on March 12 after he traveled to Riverside to meet the person he believed was a child.
- Coleman worked as a licensed school psychologist for Nuview Union School District and Nuview Bridge Early College High School, and the district says he resigned in February.
- The district attorney’s office requested information from potential victims or witnesses via Senior Investigator Edwin Tapia at edwintapia@rivcoda.org, and a court hearing is scheduled for March 26.