A judge Tuesday ordered a Lynnwood youth basketball coach held on $100,000 bail pending investigation of an alleged sexual attack on 12-year-old boy.
Andrew Lee Kortegard, 31, was being held for investigation of second-degree child rape. No charges have been filed.
He was arrested Monday by Snohomish County sheriff’s deputies at his home in the 1600 block of Sixth Avenue W. near Lynnwood.
Kortegard has been a basketball and soccer coach and a referee at the Alderwood Boys &Girls Club in south Snohomish County, according to a police affidavit filed in Everett District Court.
Paul Seely, community development and operations director for the Boys &Girls Clubs of Snohomish County, said it appears the allegation stems from a social relationship, not Kortegard’s activities with the youth club.
The Snohomish County prosecutor’s office told Seely there was not a direct link between the child-rape allegation and Kortegard’s coaching activities, Seely said.
The club did a background check on Kortegard, something it does routinely for all lead volunteers, Seely said. He said he knows of no alleged impropriety by Kortegard in connection with the club.
Deputies started an investigation after the boy’s mother on Sunday took the youth to Cascade Valley Hospital in Arlington. The mother told deputies that her son had spent the previous night at Kortegard’s residence.
When deputies went to serve a search warrant at Kortegard’s home Monday evening, the suspect at first came out. Then he quickly went back inside and refused to leave his apartment, sheriff’s spokeswoman Rebecca Hover said.
Deputies temporarily evacuated other residents of the apartment complex as a precautionary measure. Kortegard came out and was arrested after deputies talked with him on the telephone for half an hour or more, Hover said.
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