Rashion Crayton
Introduction
Rashion Crayton is a 31-year-old man from Bartow, Florida, and the head coach of the Davenport Titans, a youth football and cheer program in the Mid-Florida youth conference where he coached children between the ages of 11 and 14. On October 30, 2026, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office named him among the child predators arrested in its record-setting sting, and Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd singled him out with the label “worst of the worst.” According to the sheriff’s office, Crayton spent days exchanging extremely explicit messages with someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl before driving to meet her.
Background Information
Per the sheriff’s office, Crayton led the Davenport Titans within the Mid-Florida youth conference football and cheer structure, working with kids aged 11 to 14 — the same age bracket as the undercover detective’s persona in his case, who posed as a 14-year-old girl. His arrest became one of the defining examples of the sting’s reach into youth sports.
The sting, dubbed “Polk Around and Find Out II,” ran for seven days and was announced by Judd on Friday, October 30, 2026 as the largest in Polk County history: 281 arrests in all. The New York Post’s breakdown of the week included 117 people arrested for allegedly soliciting prostitution from undercover officers, 122 for committing prostitution, 32 people in the country illegally from nine different countries, and 36 who were married; 11 suspected trafficking victims were rescued.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Charged, not convicted. Crayton was arrested in the sting and charged with felonies including traveling to meet a minor and attempted lewd/lascivious battery on a minor. The allegations below come from Polk County Sheriff’s Office statements; nothing has been adjudicated, and he is presumed innocent.
According to the sheriff’s office, Crayton sent extremely explicit sexual messages to an undercover detective who was posing as a 14-year-old girl. Deputies said he told her they could do it in his car and that he was “tryna pull up and get a lil taste” — quoted verbatim from the roster. Judd, per the Post, added that Crayton told the person he believed was a 14-year-old girl, among other things: “I can pick you up at school, and then we can have sex in the car,” and, “You see, we’ve got to be careful because just these texts will put me in jail.”
When Crayton arrived at the undercover location, deputies said, he had lubricant and sex toys consistent with what he had said he wanted to do to the girl; the Post reported he brought “a battery-charged sex toy” among other items. He was taken into custody and charged with traveling to meet a minor, use of computer to seduce a child, use of two-way communication device to commit a felony, and attempted lewd/lascivious battery on a minor.
Public Reaction and Consequences
Judd held up Crayton’s photo at the news conference, per WKMG, which paired the image with its roster of the child-predator arrests, and the Post put him in its headline alongside the ex-Disney Mickey Mouse impersonator. The sheriff told reporters Crayton’s messages were “so graphic” that he could not share the details, according to the Post — an unusual withholding in a press conference otherwise thick with quoted chat logs.
The “worst of the worst” framing stuck: Judd’s stated focus for the week, per the Post, was to “go out into the underworld and look for those who want to prey upon our folks,” and Crayton — an adult entrusted by parents with coaching their children — was the arrest the sheriff chose to personify it.
Current Status
Crayton was taken into custody when he arrived at the undercover location and charged with the four felony counts listed above. As of the October 30, 2026 announcements, the cited reports contained only the arrest and the charges — no plea, court date, or adjudication appears in them, and the allegations remain unproven. He is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Crayton’s role as head coach of the Davenport Titans is what turned his arrest from one of 281 into a named story with a “worst of the worst” label, and the sheriff’s office publicly identified him by that coaching position with children aged 11 to 14. Neither cited report states what the Titans program or the Mid-Florida youth conference has done since the arrest; what is documented is the charge sheet itself and the allegation, per investigators, that he traveled to meet who he believed was one of the children in his sport’s age group.