Coach charged with alleged simple battery on student

A Eunice High School coach was arrested on Wednesday for an Aug. 27 complaint that alleged,a physical quarrel between himself and a student.
Dwight David Collins, 44, of 641 Hill Street, turned himself in to a Eunice City Police juvenile investigator and was charged with simple battery. Collins is the assistant football coach and head track & field coach at Eunice High School.
According to police, a father of a Eunice High School student came to Eunice Police Department to file a complaint after he learned of an altercation between his juvenile son and a coach.
The juvenile division investigated the incident and a warrant was issued for the arrest of Collins for simple battery. Collins was booked then bonded out with a pending court date of December 23, 2013 in Eunice City Court.
Charges, police said, are pending against the juvenile.
No explanation was provided regarding the lapse of time between the complaint and the arrest.
Limited information regarding the incident is being released by police since the other involved party is a juvenile.
The initial incident report lists the juvenile’s father’s name, which is not being publish in order to meet the intent of laws regarding juvenile protections.
According to police records the complainant claimed that “coach Dwight Collins jumped on his son at Eunice High School”.
The complaint was received by police at 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 27. The father alluded to the incident as having occurred some two hours before at “around 6:30”, according to the lobby complaint filed at the Eunice Police Department.
School officials said that Collins was not suspended from his coaching duties at Eunice High School following an internal investigation by school officials.
Eunice High Principal Mitch Fontenot said that Collins has never been suspended, still retains his title at the school and was “never proven to be at fault for anything”.
“The (Eunice)police had already investigated and found nothing to arrest him for,” said Fontenot. “Basically, from what my understanding is, the parents were pushing this and brought it to a judge, from what I understand. Now, basically, the parents are just pursuing every right that they have and they are going through the due-process right now.”