Clarinda Football Coach Charged with Marijuana Possession, Public Intoxication

(Radio Iowa) A southwest Iowa high school football coach has been placed on administrative leave after his arrest on public intoxication and marijuana charges and the Clarinda school board will meet in closed session Wednesday to consider his future in the district.

Twenty-nine-year-old Collin Jeffrey Bevins of Clarinda was arrested at a music festival in Guthrie Center in late July. According to the Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office, security guards were trying to eject Bevins from the event and sheriff’s deputies helped get him out of the concert area. Witnesses told deputies Bevins had been trying to fight with other men at the concert. Officers say when they searched Bevins, they found he had a vape cartridge that contained THC. He’s been charged was possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia and public intoxication. Bevins was an All-American at Northwest Missouri State University and was a defensive end for the Iowa Barnstormers when he was hired as Clarinda’s head football coach in 2019.

A preliminary hearing for Bevins is scheduled for August 18th, with an arraignment set for September 8th where Bevins will enter his plea to the charges.